Director Ya-Chuan Hsiao 蕭雅全 | Executive Producer Hsiao-Hsien Hou 侯孝賢 | 2017 | 115 mins | 18+

Awards

2018 Taipei Film Festival Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction 台北電影節- 最佳導演、最佳電影配樂、最佳美術設計獎

2018  International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Competition 鹿特丹影展-正式競賽片

Beautifully made, with a stunning soundtrack and artful cinematography, Father to Son is not to be missed.    60 year-old Pao-Te Van finds himself suffering from a serious illness. Instead of getting treatment, he decides to go to Japan to look for traces of his father who abandoned him 50 years ago. At the same time, a young man from Hong Kong who is mysteriously related to Pao-Te’s past comes to Taiwan. Two unknown journeys of self-reconciliation begin. Produced by Taiwanese auteur Hsiao-Hsien Hou and directed by Ya-Chuan Hsiao, the film sketches a circle of evolution in a human drama that explores stories from the past, which hide in the future. 

六十歲的范保德（黃仲崑 飾）在發現自己生病後，決定前往日本尋找五十年前拋家棄子的父親，他的兒子（傅孟柏 飾）也參與了父親的尋父之旅。同時，一名香港的年輕人被范保德尋父之旅牽動，因而來到了台灣，卻發現了更多關於這段過去的內幕...？而兩段自我和解的未知旅程也就此展開。 《范保德》是導演蕭雅全的第三部電影長片，已入選2018年第47屆荷蘭鹿特丹國際影展「大銀幕獎」正式競賽片，並獲選為2018年台北電影節開幕片。《范保德》道出兩代之間血濃於水，卻又微妙難喻的親情，不但談及父子、家庭，更喻示了台灣的歷史。這是個尋父的故事，既是尋找源頭，也是尋找未來的故事。