6.30 pm, 13 May @ ACMI, Federation Square
Time:
6.30pm, 13 May
About the film:
1998 Premiere, 2021 Digitally, Taiwan, Colour, 84 min, PG
Genres:
Animation, Kids and Family, Religion
Synopsis/劇情簡介
Five-year-old Doudou arrives at his grandma’s house in the harbour city of Keelung in the midst of a typhoon. In Doudou’s eyes, Grandma and her friends are like aliens. They speak Taiwanese and when they laugh the roof shakes. Doudou starts a ghost catching adventure with his grandmother. This animated film explores Taiwan’s local religion against the backdrop of a multi-cultural and multi-linguistic Taiwan.
Winner of the 1999 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival Feature Film and Video – Animation; 1998 Golden Horse Award for Best Animated Feature Nominee
Director/導演介紹
Shaudi Wang is a charismatic leader in the Taiwan film industry. She made a name for herself with screenplays such as Scarecrow(1987, directed by Wang Tung), Banana Paradise (1989, directed by Wang Tung), and the award-winning film Grandma And Her Ghosts (1999) and Bear Hug (2004). Her works are rich in imagination, with life-embracing passion and humor.
Language: Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles
Format: DCP
Australasian Taiwan Studies Association 