台北電影獎Taipei Award

劇情長片 Narrative (10 programs)

劇情長片 Narrative

 

亂青春

BEAUTIFUL CRAZY

李啟源 LEE Chi-Yuarn

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 93mins

三個女孩,她打她、她吻她,她們混在一起,大人的世界令她們反胃,有人的父親還在外頭跟年輕美眉大搞曖昧,但這些事情都是小意思,最糟的莫過於告訴對方「我喜歡你」的時候,鳥糞竟不偏不倚落在肩膀上……三個女孩經驗青春,勇敢狠狠愛一場,誰愛誰比較多,誰又砸爛誰的什麼,一切都不重要;女孩勇敢前衝,導演李啟源繼《巧克力重擊》後又一青春力作。

 

Before they could figure out what was happening, Xiao-Bu finds herself in a cat fight with Angel over a cigarette, Ah-Mi sleeps with Xiao-Bu’s boxer boyfriend, and Angel kisses Xiao-Bu. What could be worse? All three girls fall in love, feel hurt, forget and have experiences that are as random as 17 year-old Xiao-Bu’s coin toss which decides her future relationship with Angel…

 

花吃了那女孩

CANDY RAIN

陳宏一 CHEN Hung-Yi

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 105mins

2007香港電影節

 

台北一座老舊公寓,居住在裡頭的戀人們不約而同都收到署名給「Candy Rain」的無名包裹,四段關於愛情的奏鳴曲。又,愛情的形式有哪幾種?A:在一起很快樂。B:在一起不快樂。C:不在一起很快樂。D:不在一起不快樂。E:以上皆是。答案是單選、複選還是無選項可選?林嘉欣、王心凌女女情愛對手戲,電影未上映即成為同志社群熱話題,廣告導演陳宏一首部劇情電影。

 

Based on true stories, Candy Rain tells four intimate, lyrical stories of women in love with women in contemporary Taipei.

 

 

流浪神狗人

GOD MAN DOG

陳芯宜 Singing CHEN

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 119mins

2008柏林影展青年論壇單元 / 2007金馬獎最佳編劇等3項提名

 

一台流浪的神明車,牽動一群命運交錯的邊緣人;被遺棄的神、狗、人,一段魔幻交錯的狂想曲。患有產後憂鬱症的青青、乞求天主讓自己成功戒酒的必勇、開著流浪神明車全台趴趴行的牛角,他們力爭上游,面對命運,選擇勇敢迎接而不是對抗;一隻流浪狗引發的死亡車禍,卻讓他們偏離原有的生活軌道,但原本分別你我、那道鮮明的界線卻也因此慢慢消融……

 

God Man Dog Follows the daily lives of different people, observing the reserved way they go about their lives. This is a rhapsody of Gods, men, and dogs down and out together. A meandering truck full of gods gets mixed up with a cast of outcasts whose lives gradually entwine with each other…

 

 

幫幫我愛神

HELP ME EROS

李康生 LEE Kang-Sheng

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 103mins

2007釜山影展PPP首獎 / 2007曼谷影展評審團大獎 / 2007威尼斯影展 / 2008亞洲電影大獎最佳攝影

 

失業失意的男子,在人生最谷底邂逅了一名檳榔西施,兩人生命短暫交會,情與慾讓他們奮不顧身撲進愛的漩渦。男子白天靠撥打生命線諮詢電話打發時間,晚上則跟檳榔西施繼續泡在一起;而在肉慾與藥品的迷幻世界裡,女孩要的又是什麼?演員裸露尺度大膽,更形色出慾望的無重力狀態。李康生導演首作即擒下釜山影展PPP首獎等多項大獎,濃郁的鏡頭風格是本片另一焦點。

 

It's a story about three people in a big city. 28-year-old Nick abuses drugs after losing his job in the stock market during the recession. 35-year-old Maria is a volunteer in

lifesaving hotline and was once a rape victim. 20-year-old Fion sells betel nuts below Nick's apartment. They all desperately need to be loved and connected.

 

囧男孩

ORZ BOYZ

楊雅喆 YANG Ya-Che

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 110mins

2008香港電影節 / 2008台灣國際兒童影展 / 2008舊金山電影節

 

你的學校裡有沒有這樣的人物?他們捉弄女生,搞得老師束手無策,《囧男孩》裡的「騙子一號」、「騙子二號」就是這樣的男生。老師罰他們放學後必須天天上圖書館報到,真是最糟卻也是最好的處罰!男孩們從此沈浸在書本的大海,遠離了真實世界的冷漠與痛苦。然後,女孩出現,男孩們一起追求學校裡面這位最美麗的女生,無意間卻碰觸了女孩甜美笑容背後的祕密。

 

More than just naughty, they play tricks on classmates, tease girls at school, fight with other boys, and lie to everyone until their teacher breaks down. They are named Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2. They read almost all the books in the library. No. 1 becomes a wonderful storyteller, and No. 2 is his best audience….

 

海角七號

CAPE NO.7

魏德聖 WEI Te-Sheng

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 133mins

 

恆春,台灣南端的小鎮。從台北失意返鄉的年輕樂團主唱阿嘉,在繼父的安排下,當起了小鎮的郵差;來自日本的過氣模特兒友子,不知怎麼地被迫留在恆春,做起演唱會的相關工作。為了爭取難得的表演機會,阿嘉的繼父發起自組樂團的活動,樂團的成員則來自當地居民;小鎮看似不比大城,美好轉機卻在心念一轉處。導演魏德聖繼《賽德克.巴萊》這部破格的試拍片之後的作品,格外引人注目。

 

Seven people, who were not expected to be great or anything, formed this impossible band. At the moment the sun sank into the ocean, they performed passionately and feverishly as if they had no past and no future. On this long lost land and ocean, at this very moment of their seemingly meaningless life, they created a legend of Hengchun.

 

蝴蝶

SOUL OF A DEMON

張作驥 CHANG Tso-Chi

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 122mins

2008年柏林影展世界大觀單元 / 2008香港電影節開幕影片

 

一哲頂替過失殺人的弟弟阿仁而鋃鐺入獄,哲父則帶著阿仁逃至日本避禍。出獄後的一哲重回家鄉南方澳,面對不堪的過往,出獄是重新開始,還是仇恨的延伸?不願開口與人溝通的阿佩靜靜地陪著愛人,卻只能看著一哲一步步奔向那仇恨的世界。和地方幫派之間糾纏不清的世代恩怨,將隨著父親返鄉,再度衝擊一哲的平靜生活。

 

Che completes a three-year jail term and returns to his home in the fishing port of Nanfangao. Che took the rap for a crime actually committed by his younger brother Ren... Soul of a Demon is a gangster blues in which a young man has no choice but to face up to unresolved questions from his past.

 

夏天的尾巴

SUMMER'S TAIL

鄭文堂 CHENG Wen-Tang

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 108mins

2007釜山影展亞洲視窗 / 2007香港亞洲電影節 / 2007高雄電影節

 

高鐵經過的小鎮,少男少女們的青春之歌。男孩女孩奮力抵抗暫時沒有答案、來自成人世界的謎團,他們擁有的就是彼此,還有熱血無敵的音樂。青春不被校園圍牆困陷,但追求夢想必須付出代價,在擺脫既有體制之後,男孩女孩們要學習的是對自己負責的責任感。電影大量選用台灣獨立樂團的歌曲,成功形塑出青少年次文化的樣貌。

 

Because of a congenital heart condition, A-yueh, a rock and roll girl, has left school. During the time when she is not in school, every day is filled with discovery and since the specially gifted and talented class's student Chen Hwai-Chun, fell in love with a teacher, and met the fate of being expelled from the school. Now the streets have one more high school student on the roam…

 

情非得已之生存之道

what on earth have I done wrong?! 

鈕承澤 Doze NIU Chen-Zer

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 96mins

2007金馬獎費比西獎 / 2007南方影展 / 2008鹿特丹影展奈派克最佳亞洲電影獎

 

景氣真的壞到無可救藥了嗎?一名叫「豆子」的熱血導演不這麼想,他用盡一切可能,包含與公部門折衝,為了就是要成功開鏡,好好拍一部電影而已,但狀況卻無所不在,他在電影之外的故事跟生活,遠比電影情節更荒謬;「為藝術犧牲」不是口號,代價是毫無品質的生活,這究竟值不值得?導演鈕承澤的電影懺情錄,偽紀錄片形式批判力道十足,近距離貼身觀察關於「電影」這件事。

 

Taipei, 2007. Doze, a famous actor and TV director, decides to make his first film, satirizing the politicians and media that are disliked by people. Nevertheless, before the production begins, the leading actor’s gone, and then the company runs out of money. In order to raise the money, Doze hustles for actresses and drinks with every potential investors...How is he able to make his first film? 

 

九降風

WINDS OF SEPTEMBER

林書宇 Tom LIN Shu-Yu

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 106mins

2008香港電影節

 

新竹颳起九降風,青春的序曲正開啟。少年們在棒球場邊加油吶喊,催促的不只是球隊的勝利,更舒展了年輕身體裡那股不安的騷動。少年們在同儕團體裡形塑男子氣質,兄弟情誼此時高過一切,但當個人路線與兄弟義氣相衝突的時候,真實世界的灰色地帶隨即浮現,對與錯沒有死道理;九降風再度颳起,就是少年們走自己的路的時候了……

 

1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, the story follows Yen and Tang and their gang of friends through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls after school, midnight skinny dipping at the school pool to supporting their favorite baseball team, the China Times Eagles, they did everything together, with Yen being their leader…

 

                                                               

短片 Short

 

少年不戴花

IT SEEMS TO RAIN

蔡辰書 TSAI Chen-Shu

2007 / Taiwan / Betacam / Color / 37mins

寬每天都在重複拉頭髮的動作,希望看起來能跟一般人一樣。誰來包容他的與眾不同?

Kuan has to straighten his naturally born curly hair with a hair straightener before school everyday. But due to the raining season…

 

女力

MY SUPERPOWER GIRL

陳映蓉 DJ Chen Yin-Jung

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 30mins

擁有超能力是福還是禍?少女為愛乖乖收起超能力,但做自己,真的比較好自在!

Jolie, who sees her inborn power as a curse, realizes, after an accident, that her superpower should no longer be hidden…

 

夏天

SUMMER

夏紹虞 Shao-Yu HSIA

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 30mins

女孩跟隨男孩衝浪去;這個夏天,女孩要擁有自己的浪板,一大片碧海藍天已然在眼前展開。

Fei is tempted by the thrilling sensation his boyfriend feels on the surfing board, now she want to try it herself…

 

夏午

SUMMER AFTERNOON

何蔚庭 HO Wi-Ding

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / B&W / 15mins

風和日麗的下午,三人兜風旅行,緊急煞車後,旅行變調成殘酷的玩笑。

Jane likes Tracy. Jane does not like Vincent. "Summer Afternoon" unfolds in real time with two lovers playing a joke on the girl in the backseat…

 

 

愛瑪的晚宴

THE EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY

莊景燊 CHUANG Ching-Shen

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 20mins

一向乖乖聽話的女孩愛瑪,決定要在生日宴會上,拆穿她父親的假面具。

Emma, an 18-year-old beautiful girl, decided to give her father an unforgettable “gift” on her birthday…

 

闔家觀賞

FAMILY VIEWING

中文名字 CHENG Chui-Kuo

2008 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 30mins

以法國人的角度,來看台灣家庭又一個尋常的週末生活。

The short takes a look at a Taiwanese family’s ordinary weekend from a French person’s point-of-view.

 

邱比特女孩

MS. CUPID

彭之軒 Arrow PENG

2008 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 27mins

月老的線牽向何方?少女心頭有了意中人,擁有特殊能力的她,能不能自助人助、獲得真愛呢?

Rain, a 23 year-old girl, has a special ability. Once, after helping her best friend in love, she ran into the biggest perplexity in her life…

 

光之夏

SUMMER OF MAGIC

王承洋 WANG Cheng-Yang

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / B&W / 30mins

在這和阿嬤相伴、寂靜且奇幻的夏日,有著令阿宏迷戀的歌曲,和總被遺忘的那袋芭樂。

This is a summer that A-hong enjoys music and spends quality time with his grandmother.

 

勾引

TEMPTATION

葉佳鑫 Josh YEH

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 19mins

一對飲食男女把愛情跟美食連結記憶在一起,他們能面對過去、開創出自己的未來嗎?

Jim brings a beautiful woman into a restaurant. The chef, May, is totally stunned when sees him and quickly hides…

 

天黑

THE END OF THE TUNNEL

張榮吉 CHANG Rong-Ji

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 30mins

對盲眼男孩來說,這個世界只是一直暗著天光,音樂就是帶他走出小天地的天使之音。

This film portrays a blind boy whose eyesight is trapped in the darkness. When he was a child, he imagined the only he couldn’t see were the dark nights…

 

 

飛躍藍調

FLY OUT BLUE

史明輝 Jack SHIH Ming H

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 13mins

上班族重複著一成不變的生活;某日巧遇精靈,將引領他從高處縱身一躍。

It tell a story for an office worker and portraits his gloomy life under the busy society.

  

回憶的味道  

FRAGRANCE OF MEMORTY

吳佳娟 WU Chia-Chuan

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 3mins40secs

回憶來自久遠前好熟悉的一股幽香,多年前曾經發生過什麼呢?

A girl is playing with her toy airplane in a windy afternoon. Suddenly, she smells a fragrance coming from outside window…

 

富士將軍 

FUJI SHOGUN

張祖綺 Christy CHANG

2008 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 2mins20secs

戰場上殺戮爭勝,所到處所向披靡的大將軍卻總是神龍見首不見尾,這是怎麼回事?

 

PATCH OF DREAM

PATCH OF DREAM

姚竣升 Allen Wen Yau / 陳威戎 William Chen / 詹函峰 Han-Feng Chan / 黃偉翰Boyce Huang

2007 / Taiwan / Betacam / Color / 5mins45secs

 

鎮日編織的老婆婆伸手觸碰丈夫相片時,卻掉入了異次元的空間。

 

An old lady sits in a wheelchair decided to stretch out her arm and reach for the photography on the wall…

 

RIVER

蔡志維 TSAI Chih-Wei

2007 / Taiwan / Betacam / Color / 16mins

 

遠方那條碰觸不到的大鯨魚,是否就棲息在我夢想的所在地?

The film is expressing the idea of “dream”. The main character breaks through the boundaries and pursues his goal and freedom regardless the environmental trend.

  

大頭仔的三塊厝

THE BIG HEAD BOY

蕭弘林 Hung Lin Hsiao / 劉勇明 Yong Ming Liu

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 16mins39secs

夏日炎熱的午後,頑皮的大頭仔為了端午節立蛋祈福的習俗,擾亂了原本平靜無事的雞舍。

Burning hot summer afternoon, naughty boy with a big head boy disturbed a peaceful henhouse just to pray for blessings at the Dragon Boat Festival by trying to get an egg standing up…

 

棋局

THE CHESS

陳柏欽 CHEN Po-Chin

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 9mins40secs

解決了眼前的困局,還會不會還有更大的難題擋在前頭?反思現代生活的小品。

It is to describe that people disagree with the social phenomenon which is full of abusive human right and reflect the dissatisfaction of constraint…

 

遺忘的寶藏

THE FORGOTTEN TREASURE

2007 / Taiwan / Betacam / Color / 22mins

邱立偉 CHIU Li-Wei

傳說中多年前埋下的寶藏,引來多方人馬挖掘,連政府部門也來插一腳。

According to the legend, Japanese army had left a considerable amount of treasure in Taiwan after WII…

 

山水歷

THE LANDSCAPE TOUR

馬匡霈 MA Kuang-Pei

2007 / Taiwan / Betacam / Color / 2mins

中國捲軸畫幅緩緩開展,每一幕都是關於情感的寓言,看見風景中隱含的戀人絮語。

The director turns the nature, mountains and waters and animals into recognizable, apprehensible and personalized animation characters which are full of love and emotions.

 

木偶人3 熱鬥

WOODMAN 3 HOT FIGHTING

林世勇 LIN Shih-Young

2007 / Taiwan / 35mm / Color / 6mins

炙熱的酷暑,燃燒的季節,無人的研究室裡,即將展開一場前所未有的熱鬥。

Burning season….during this extremely hot summer, no one is in the lab. An oncoming hot fighting will take place in it…

 

紀錄片 Documentary

 

穿越和平

AN EXPOSURE OF AFFECTED HOSPITAL

朱賢哲 CHU Hsien-Che

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 60mins

 

世紀之初,臺灣歷經SARS風暴,台北市立和平醫院爆發大規模疫情,市政府要求所有醫護人員返回醫院「集中隔離」,引起醫療人員極大的恐懼與反彈,堅持不願返回醫院的周經凱醫師,被媒體貼上「落跑醫師」的標籤,在疫情消緩之後,他生命中更大的風暴正揭開序幕,照見了臺灣社會的集體恐懼。

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) broke out at Heping Hospital in Taiwan in 2003. The Taiwan government decided to isolate Heping Hospital, and asked all staff to return it. Dr. Chou denied this order. Following the Dr, Chou lawsuit against the government, an inconvenient truth in this affected hospital was discovered. 

 

薩爾瓦多日記

EL SALVADOR JOURNAL

賀照緹 HO Chao-Ti

2008 / Taiwan / Betacam / Color / 51mins

 

中美洲薩爾瓦多的「公平成衣廠」,台商老闆無預警關廠,工人們的生計頓時陷入困境。向上游廠商、服飾品牌GAP施壓後,工會透過談判,成立了屬於工人的工廠。在全球化浪潮席捲全球之際,公平成衣廠的成功案例,獲得全球注目,而促成此案的關鍵人物,則是來自台灣的學者陳信行。

 

The sudden closing of a clothing factory in El Salvador put its workers out of employment to face financial difficulties.  After pressuring the manufacturers, the retailer GAP, and negotiating with the laborer’s union, the factory reopened and the workers became the new owners of the factory.  Behind this success story is a professor from Taiwan.

 

 

親愛的,你好嗎?

DARINGHOW ARE YOU

朱詩倩 Michelle CHU

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 36mins

 

簽下離婚證書的瞬間,正值青春年華的她會因此獲得釋放嗎?回想十八歲那時候,我們的愛情正美好,十年時光飛逝,人生有變得更精彩嗎?歷經婚變,日子又回到一個人的狀態,但這時候卻只想你問候一聲:親愛的,你好嗎?

 

The instant she signs the divorce papers, does the young woman feel a rush of freedom? From eighteen to twenty-eight, did life change for the better? How will her newly-single status treat her?

 

 

索瑪花開的季節

THE CHILDREN BRANDED BY LEPROSY

吳兆鈞 WU Jhao-Jyun

2007 / Taiwan / Betacam / Color / 84mins

 

中國大陸四川省的某個彝族村落,因麻瘋病肆虐被稱為「麻瘋村」,遠遠被隔離在山的深處。在這樣的刻苦環境中,該區的大營盤小學出現首屆、十六名畢業生,為原本沒有希望的村落引來生活的活水;象徵彝族的索瑪花,也在畢業時節,強韌又美麗地綻放盛開。

 

There’s a place called the” Leprosy Village“ located in the mountain area in Sichuan of China. The patients who live there have been also isolated by society. 16 graduates of Ta Ying Pan Elementary School finally graduated, and they opened up a new way for the other villagers so that they could proudly step into it… 

 

思念之城

CITY OF MEMORIES

李靖惠 LI Jing-Huei

2008 / Taiwan / Betacam / B&W, Color / 101mins

台北的冬天,空氣冷瑟;生命的冬天,淡然的生活與活過的美麗回憶交疊。安養院的長輩們透過鏡頭,緩緩訴說生命的風景。在真實與魔幻交錯間,冉冉升起的是未盡的思念……。繼《家在何方》、《阿嬤的戀歌》之後,本片為導演「女性家國四部曲」的第三部曲。

 

This film is the third documentary in the trilogy “The Realm of Womenhood,” after “Where is My Home?” and “The Ballads of Grandmothers.” The film depicts the lives of elder people living in a nursing home: their agony, longing and loneliness. Images of wintry Taipei, with its drizzling rain, and the gloomy sky reflect fading minds these aged women.

 

雲的那端

SOMEWHERE OVER THE CLOUD

蕭美玲 HSIAO Mei-Ling

2007 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 102mins

2007日本山形紀錄片影展亞洲新浪潮競賽片特別獎

 

Elodie是名台、法混血兒。出生時,她的法國爸爸為她來台一年,爸爸回法國之後,網路世界web cam,成為父女倆的橋樑,對Elodie來說,父親藏身在虛擬的小螢幕;拜網路科技之賜,Elodie得以恣意遊走於真實和虛擬之間。

 

A series of letters that the filmmaker has written to her late teacher and guide, the renowned American documentary filmmaker Robert Kramer (1939-1999) is woven throughout the plot of the story as the boundaries of life, distance, language, identity and nationality are reexamined from the perspective of Elodie, her daughter…  

 

飛行少年

THEY ARE FLYING

黃嘉俊HUANG Chia-Jun

2008 / Taiwan / DigiBeta / Color / 120mins

 

以信心代替管束,一群熱心的大人爲行為偏差的孩子們規劃了單輪車環台一千公里的活動,相信唯有孩子們找回自信,體驗努力就會成功的經驗,才能讓他們的人生產生正面能量,帶來真正的改變。從零開始學,三十個孩子單輪車的環島計劃,在2006年的夏天落實成真。

 

“Flying” boys? It refers to the kids with abnormal behavior, those “no go” boys! Some of them have lost their parents and family, some are abandoned by their family or school. The shattered hearts and souls of those children are like a broken puzzle, now many people have come up the decision to help the boys to mend and complete the puzzle of their life!