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    A Trip with Mom

    Sophie SHUI 2019 Taiwan color 28min DCP
    date time venue guests rating
    10/07 20:50 Spot Huasan A Two P
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    In order to take care of his old mother (played by Liou, Yiin-Shang), who has lost her intelligence and is disabled, Xia Changming (played by Yi-Wen CHEN) remains unemployed at home.

    A family of four, who have been relying on the wife Xiaoling (played by CHIN, TZU-YEN), who is an insurance salesperson, for many years.

    Under the multiple pressures of the complaints from her wife, economic loading, long-term care, and physical and mental bundling, Changming is always depressed and feels hopeless and helpless.

    Finally, when the police brought the mother back, and his wife took his son away, after receiving a call, Changming marked the late summer with a red pen. He decided to take his mother to travel...

    ◎Taiwan Shorts 3: screening with Ah~, CODA, The Summer Of 12

    Director

    Sophie SHUI

    Sophie SHUI was born in a typhoon season in Fengsan, Koashiung. Bathed in the warm sunlight and gentle breeze of southern Taiwan, She grew up with a cheerful personality. She finds pleasure in seeking knowledge, and is fascinated by novel things. After working for more than twenty years in the print media industry, Sophie followed to her heart and began pursuing her passion for movies in her 50s, determined to devote the rest of her life to movies. Therefore, she resigned from her job and got accepted to professional school to learn the theory and practice of filmmaking. Director SHUI is good at drawing materials from real-life experiences, supplemented by documenting and experimenting storytelling technique, depicting the complexity of human nature. Her works are fantastic, daring and profound, which often have unexpected endings, yet filled with human feelings, leaving audiences with lingered afterthoughts. Sophie was the playwright-director of the experimental film “My Childhood” and many feature films, such as “A Trip with Mom”, “Remembering and Yearning”, “Penalty”, “This Is an Untold Secret” and “Underpass”. She was also the director of the documentary film “Jiang Fung's Diary”

    Director's Statement ▾

    Sophie SHUI

    2016《江鳳日記》Jiang Fung's Diary

    2015《地下道》Underpass

    2015《覓.秘》This Is an Untold Secret

    2015《受刑》Penalty

    2015《記.念》Remembering and Yearning

    2015《浮生》My Childhood

    Director：隋淑芬Sophie SHUI

    Producer：丁祈方TING Chi-Fang

    Production Manager：陳秋甫CHEN Chiou-Fu

    Screenplay：隋淑芬Sophie SHUI

    Cinematographer： 陳勝吉TAN Seng-Kiat

    Editor：陳曉東CHEN Hsiang-Dong  陳浤CHEN Hung  隋淑芬Sophie SHUI

    Sound：許政高Andy HAS  Geoffrey Han（美籍） 陳蕾Rebecca CHEN  吳松翰WU Song-Han

    Art Decorator：林欣伊LIM Xing-Yee

    Costume Designer：紀佳佳Elen JI

    Colorist：冉雅之Jamie RAN

    Music：林弘韜LIN Hung-Tao

    Actor：陳以文CHEN Yi-Wen  劉引商LIOU Yiin-Shang  今子嫣CHIN Tzu-Yen  鄭傑伊Zheng Jie-Yin

    隋淑芬Sophie SHUI

    sofan888@gmail.com

     

     

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