Director Hsiao Ya-Chuan  蕭雅全 | 2017 | 116mins | UNCL 15+

Awards 獎項

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2018 Taipei Film Festival - Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Production Design

第20屆台北電影節 -  最佳導演、最佳配樂、最佳美術設計

2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam - Big Screen Competition

第47屆鹿特丹國際影展 - 大銀幕競賽

2018 Sao Paulo International Film Festival - The International Perspective

巴西聖保羅電影節 - 國際觀摩單元

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Father to Son featured as the closing film for the first Taiwan Film Festival in Australia. This unforgettable film, rendered in both colour and monochrome, also features a beautiful soundtrack by prize-winning composers' Summer Lei and Chris Hou.

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. 

《范保德》為蕭雅全的第三部電影長片，細膩的情感鋪陳，加上御用攝影師林哲強充滿詩意的光影，搭配金獎得主雷光夏和侯志堅的配樂，成功地讓《范保德》受到國際影壇肯定，進軍鹿特丹影展大銀幕競賽，更榮獲台北電影節三項大獎。《范保德》聚焦於三代間的父子關係，緩緩道出東方文化下父親形象的糾葛。

年邁六十的范保德（黃仲崑 飾）得知自己生病後，藉故前往日本，陪伴同行的兒子范大齊（傅孟柏 飾），旅程中才意識到這是一趟父親的尋父之旅。兒時父親離家，讓范保德長期活在痛苦下，范保德努力克制，不願重蹈覆轍父親走過的路。當死亡逼近，父親與兒子成為他心中最大的掛念。

Filmmaker in Focus: Hsiao Ya-Chuan 焦點影人｜蕭雅全

Born in 1967, Hsiao Ya-Chuan began making short films at 21 years old, before entering the advertising industry. In the late eighties, he received a request to shoot a music video from fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Assassin, Millennium Mambo), leading to a life-long friendship. Hsiao served as Hou’s assistant director for Flowers of Shanghai (1998) and later directed his first feature, Mirror Image (2000). Mirror Image enjoyed a successful international festival tour, featuring at Cannes, Torino, Vancouver International Film Festival, and more.​

1967年出生於台灣彰化，1988年開始拍攝短片，隨後投身廣告圈並大放異彩。1998年擔綱侯孝賢導演《海上花》的副導，正式踏入電影圈，2000年首作《命帶追逐》文學性的敘事手法，以及對台灣的生動捕捉，入選坎城影展導演雙週，使之蜚聲國際。2010年《第三十六個故事》以台北咖啡館為背景，探討都會人士的心裡價值，獲得觀眾青睞，進而掀起一股咖啡熱潮。2018年《范保德》細膩刻畫三代父子關係，再度受到國內外影壇肯定。