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Days Before the Millennium

26th(2021) A Window on Asian Cinema

Rural · Crime/Violence · Social Criticism · Women · Labor · Human Rights  

  • CountryTaiwan
  • Production Year2021
  • Running Time148min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
In 1996, a woman from rural Vietnam, Van Tue, immigrates to marry a Taiwanese man in search of a better life. Her husband earns a living as a construction worker. Her mother-in-law refuses to trust her. Van Tue wants to open a small business to earn more money and to help her family in Vietnam, but her family in Taiwan only wants her to stay at home. Meanwhile, typhoons and earthquakes continuously ravage their home, and her husband loses his job. Her situation deteriorates even further: Her husband becomes violent, and she tries to run away, but she has nowhere to go. How will she find freedom in a strange place? Twenty years later, another young Vietnamese woman comes to Taiwan to trace Van Tue’s life. The problems of the past, however, are repeated. The path for women who have left their hometowns to be integrated into a new society is still problematic. (PARK Sungho)
Director
Director
CHANG Teng-Yuan
Chang Teng-Yuan is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter. He graduated from Shih Hsin University, where he majored in Film. He is an alumnus of the Golden Horse Film Academy. His short film, Crossing The sentiMENtal Desert (2010), won a Golden Harvest Award and was nominated at the Taipei Film Awards. In recent years, he has shifted the focus of his films and to videos to the plight of immigrant groups in Taiwan. His 2021 feature debut, Days Before the Millennium, won Taiwan’s Excellent Screenplay Award in 2016 and the MAN-JIA Memorial Award of the 2019 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion.
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Credit
  • Director CHANG Teng-Yuan 장텡유안
  • Producer Shih-Ken LIN, Yuan LI
  • Cast Annie NGUYEN, Steven Chang-Hui CHIANG, Thu Hang NGUYEN, Shu-Fang CHEN
  • Screenplay Teng-Yuan CHANG
  • Cinematography Tz-Yang WEI
  • Production Design Tien-Chueh LEE
  • Editor Chun-Hung CHEN, Kai-Yen YANG
  • Sound Agnes YANG
  • Music Yu-De LIN
  • Production Company ALEPH TAIMAGES 光元體影藝有限公司 (Presented + Produced by)
    Taiwan
    9F.-1, No. 46, Jinzhou St., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City 104
    alephfilmart@gmail.com

    OUTLAND Film Production 邊境映象藝文有限公司 (Co-Produced by)

    ifilm Co., Ltd. 傳影互動股份有限公司 (Co-Presented by)

  • World Sales ifilm Co., Ltd. 傳影互動股份有限公司
    Taiwan 1F., No. 21-1, Ln. 265, Sec. 2, Heping E. Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 106
    festival@ifilm.com.tw