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桃園電影節8月16日熱鬧開幕， 主辦單位桃園市政府和執行單位卯足了勁，邀請來自國際各地的導演嘉賓，選了許多好看的影片，還有競爭激烈的競賽片。在《念念眷村：文學裡的眷村故事》的記者會上，由影展大使溫昇豪和評審小薰揭開序幕，接著張善政市長和文化局長相繼致詞，会場放了兩部開幕片的預告：《我們還有明天》、《念念眷村》，然後是影片介紹，由白先勇老師的錄影和的袁瓊瓊老師的文字開場，接著是主創人員和作家朱天心和張啟疆的上台致詞，朱天心講到曾經住過的僑愛新村，也和影片內容相印證，話題從六十年代、八十年代延續到現在。謝謝受訪的作家先進和製作過程中支持影片的單位和工作人員，還有在開幕日遠道而來的藝文界朋友。接著登場的茶會，混合著國際影展的延伸式舞台空間、吧檯獻上眷村風味的美食，光影交織的人聲絮語，真像是片場拍片的魔幻時刻。電影開始了，看到大銀幕的新版中英字幕畫面,主題曲<大門紅>唱起，勾起了拍攝過程的點點滴滴，充實影片內容的是眷村生活和文學的內涵,受訪的主角作家和學者, 背後是自我要求，日以作業的團隊精神。 放映後熱度持續，和睽違一段時間的影像工作者小聚，過了忙碌的ㄧ天，"我們還有明天"!謝謝電影節企劃的<遷徙>主題，選了多部令人懷念的國片，放大眷村的主題，回顧歴史，看向未來，讓觀眾從影像進入文學的心靈世界，打開另一扇窗，歡迎大家繼續光臨桃園電影節。 (照片:桃影提供/ 攝影:連庠達,魏秀娟, 李君葳,袁若文)

Synopsis of Spring Cactus

Based on the true story of a Tzu-Chi foundation volunteer Chen Ai-Lan, this film is made possible after a few years of field investigation. Chen Ai-Lan had passed away from this world. Lan was from a broken family. She had been eager for a happy family life but never got it. She left her family and met a social worker, Ming-Dau. Someday, out of an uncontrollable impulse, she inflicted wound upon Ming-Dau. She met Blacky after being released from prison. Bad-tempered Blacky was a gambler. In a conflict, again, Lan inflicted wound upon him. She tried to escape, but began to regret. Then she saw the Dharma Master Cheng- Yen and was influenced and called by her. At this point, she discovered her true self and value. Her mind being washed, the peace and purity had uncovered and manifested.

It tells the story of a doomed romance between an undisciplined young man, Wen-xiang, who sent to a Buddhist monastery and the woman, Su-bi, he meets there. Su-bi was a poor woman that oust from her family just because they think she is sterility. Su-bi takes care of Wen-xiang meticulously while the days they in Buddhist monastery. Wen-xiang was attracted by Su-bi's gentle gradually . However, the love between them ends in a tragedy.

Synopsis of The Strait Story

The year is 1943, and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famed Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner Takachiho Maru in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a piano player.Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan.

More than 1000 lives were claimed, and only a few survivors were rescued from two lifeboats. This, the third most disastrous shipwreck in world history, should have been remembered as important episode in Taiwanese history. However, instead of commemorating the tragedy, discussions and inquiries about the incident were forbidden by the island's Japanese colonial governor. As a result, the story of Takachiho Maru sunk with the liner and its passengers. Ching-Cheng Huang, perhaps one of the most talented artists Taiwan had ever produced, was forgotten as well.

Many years later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. In order to restore the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work, and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting's "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more inspired she becomes. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of restoring herself.

The Forgotten: Reflections on Eastern Pond

This documentary intends to explore the historical incident of "Takachiho Maru " shipwreck in 1943. This film will present the facts and feelings in order to get at the truth and reveal history which has been berried for so many years. Survivors of the ship have been interviewed, and history recreated in the form of docudrama. Also presented will be the story of Mr. Huang Ching-cheng, renowned Taiwan sculptor, who died on the ship at the age of 31. Other aspects of documents and reconstructing scenes will be also included.

The Song of Chatian Mountain

This film is adapted from Chung Chao-Cheng's novel of the same title, Song of Chatian Mountain. It depicts the intellectual tyranny of the occupiers at the end of the Second World War and the way that educated persons resisted it. The story begins with a Taiwanese man, Lu Zhixiang, well educated in Japan and a judo master, who returns to Taiwan to live up to his high ideals. He plans to join an anti-Japanese organization on his return, but his ship is sunk on the voyage back and he must struggle with the ocean for his life. He survives, barely, but the Japanese police are after him, and he flees to the mountains. There he lives for a long time, leading a lonely life, wood-cutting, catching eels, and fishing to support himself. He wins the admiration of the local peasants and aboriginal people, and also the love of Benmei, a strongly maternal figure, who decides she wishes to become his wife. The entire film is shot in high-definition video, and it shows the more intimate side of human nature with great subtlety, emotionally understated but full of a humanistic spirit.