Alex Yang's (楊順清) The Trigger (扣板機) is a dramatic story about a young man's relations with his troublesome acquaintances: his mother, who is a religious fanatic; his boss, the ex-gang leader who took care of him like a father; and his dysfunctional girlfriend, who was molested by her stepfather.
Mirror Image (命帶追逐) is Hou Hsiao-hsien pupil Hsiao Ya-chuan's (蕭雅全) debut film, an urban rhapsody about destiny and coincidence. Wu Mi-sen's (吳米森) Drop Me a Cat (給我一隻貓) is also a debut film, and it won Best Art Direction at the Golden Horse Awards. In it, a man struggles with the memory of his dead girlfriend and a mysterious new girl, who suddenly appears in his life just like the quiet cat his late girlfriend left for him. Another debut film is Teng Yung-shing's (鄧勇星) Love at 7-Eleven (7-Eleven之戀), about two parallel love stories taking place in Taiwan's ubiquitous retail establishment -- 7-Eleven.
The guests joining the three panel discussions are also highly anticipated. They include Philip Lee
What: Asian Next Wave Film Forum
Where: SPOT -- Taipei Film House, located at 18 Chungshan N. Rd., Sec. 2, Taipei
When: Opens tonight with a screening of Somewhere Over the Dreamland at 8:40pm; from tomorrow until Dec. 20, there will be three daytime movie screenings and three evening screenings each day
Tickets: Free for the daytime screenings, available at SPOT, Eslite bookstores and Fnac; NT$200 for the evening screenings, available at Acer ticketing outlets or direct from the venue
Telephone: (02) 2511-7786
On the Web: www.spot.org.tw
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