Coo-Coo 043
What should have come back, didn’t come back, but what shouldn’t have come back, did.
Nominated for thirteen awards at the 2022 59th Golden Horse Awards and won the FIPRESCI Prize, Best Narrative Feature, and Best New Performer award.
The sound of wings reverberates through the air. In the murky half-light, race pigeon 043 has finally returned after seven years.
043 wasn’t the only one that went missing seven years ago; the other was their son, Shih, whose disappearance remains an irreparable wound in Pigeon Master Ching’s heart. The family’s barely-maintained peace is shattered by 043’s return, as Ching’s daughter, Lulu, brings a beaten-up boy named Tig back home. At first reluctant, Ching begins to see shades of Shih in Tig. After all, breeding pigeons with his son was his biggest wish. But wild pigeons can’t change their ways. Lulu leaves abruptly and never comes back. Ching’s wife, Ming, is also tempted to leave. She stealthily begins legal proceedings to declare Shih deceased. Thunder booms vaguely afar; a typhoon emerges on the horizon. Grandpa’s death is the last straw that breaks this family’s back. In the aftershock of the storm, what course should the wounded follow?
Drama | Ching Lin Chan | 2022 | 135 min
Language: Mandarin and Taiwanese
Subtitles: English and Traditional Chinese
Screen Time: Sunday, Sep 10 at 1:45PM
Director Biography
Ching Lin Chan
Born in 1980, CHAN is a filmmaker who has been paying close attention to the poor and underprivileged in Taiwan with his works. His film, A Breath from the Bottom (2012), won him Best Director at the 2013 Taipei Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film at Golden Horse Award and selected for Rotterdam International Film Festival. Set against the background of Taiwan’s National Highways, his first feature, The Island that All Flow By (2016), which exquisitely described men’s struggle under capitalism, was nominated for Best New Director at both Golden Horse Awards and Xining FIRST International Film Festival. His upcoming film, centering on the peculiar cultural economic activity in Taiwan – Pigeon Racing, will focus on people who are disadvantaged and subsequently bring out the everlasting question of and struggle with national identity among Taiwanese.
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