elusivek | More November Programmes! (Reply)

* Editing to add trailer links for the movies that have a trailer up.*

I guess November is going to be a busy month for me as well!

We got a Taiwanese Film Festival sort of thingie going on...

The View Finder To Asian Film - 22-29.11.2010

The movies and their synopsis that I want to watch include:

Wednesday 24.11.2010 19:30 - 台灣短打 Taiwan Shorts
A collection of 4 short movies, including:

我愛耳邊風 A Mind of My Own
What happens when you're trapped between heaven and earth? Aspiring actress Bing-bing falls into a coma after a car accident and becomes a restless spirit unable to move on. Aided by other spirits, she begins to reflect upon her past life. For his first narrative work, director Cheng Hao Chuan spins a surreal tale told with humor and bittersweet grace.

針尖上的天使 The Angel on a Needle Point
New-generation director Wu Mi-sen teams with rising singer Yoga Lin for this short exploring of the pleasure and pain of young love. Hai (lin) meets Yuan, who says to him, "Whoever lies shall swallow a thousand needles." Hai's life would one day fill with needles, their piercing sharpness bringing him hurt - and also giving him the power to hurt others.

時代照相館 Time Lapse [Trailer]
In an old photography studio, an old man and a group of young men meet. The old man has seen everything, but is determined to live a full life until the very end. The young men have just begun their lives, but feel aimless, lost and insecure. One man's story is ending, while the young men's stories are just beginning. Between their differences, a lesson on life is found.

生日願望 Birthday [Trailer]
Po-chieh buys a mobile phone as a birthday gift for his little sister. Surprisingly, he wins two free plane tickets, which his elder sister insists he should give to their parents, who have never traveled abroad. The parents fly on the little sister's birthday, but promise to call her mobile phone - a call that she hopes will bring the family together. But her birthday brings yet another surprise...

Friday 26.11.2010 19:30 - 第36個故事 Taipei Exchanges [Trailer]

Doris (Kwai Lunmei) simply wanted to open a refined stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie (Lin Zaizai) turns the cafe into a burgeoning bartering business. There, anything ranging from bars of soap to a soulful song is a tradable commodity. TAIPEI EXCHANGES is a contemporary fairy tale that serves to reflect the charms of Taipei and its people, as well as the modern dilemma between ideas and reality.

Sunday 28.11.2010 16:30 - 台北星期天 Pinoy Sunday [Trailer]

This directorial debut by Ho Wi-Ding who was born in Malaysia but now lives in Taiwan as a filmmaker, is a light-hearted, gently humorous social commentary about the lives of Filipino migrant laborers in Taiwan. Manuel and Dado are factory workers in the outskirts of Taipei. Spying an abandoned red sofa, they decide to bring this object back... which leads to all sorts of misadventures.

Sunday 28.11.2010 21:30 - 珈琲時光 Cafe Lumiere [Trailer]

A freelance writer living in Tokyo defies social taboo by choosing life as a single mother in Hou Hsiao Hsien's meditative tribute to Ozu. When Yoko announces that she is pregnant and has no intentions of marrying the father of her child, her traditional family is outraged. Despite little sympathy from within her family circle, a blossoming friendship with the owner of a local second-hand bookstore goes a long way in alleviating Yoko's feelings of loneliness. As Yoko begins to re-evaluate her increasingly complicated life, her newfound friend silently pines for her while finding it hard to vocalize his feelings.

There are others that I want to watch as well, but ohwell, time clash. Right smack on Tuesday and Thursday (陽陽 Yang Yang and 戀戀風塵 Dust in the Wind) so, I couldn't score everything I wanted.

Ah~ Another busy month!

PS. In Macau, November is the Charity Bazaar, Grand Prix, and Food Festival month to boot. Yes, I'm expecting it to be busy this month.