26th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival - March 13-23, 2008

Yang’s masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day is an epic portrait of Taiwan at the start of the ‘60s. Built around the shocking murder of a young girl, the film is set amidst youth gangs struggling to find their identities in the aftermath of the Chinese civil war. A rare screening of the film’s original four-hour version. With intermission. More...

A landmark in Taiwanese New Wave cinema, The Terrorizer weaves intricately between a doctor and his novelist wife, a young hoodlum and a love-struck photographer in its examination of disconnected lives in modern Taipei. As each struggle for emotional connection, everyday acts of betrayal suggest how we are all capable of “terrorizing” each other. In Person: Cora Miao
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Winner of the Best Picture award from the National Society of Film Critics, Yi Yi gained Edward Yang worldwide recognition, winning him the Best Director award at Cannes and a host of other accolades. Both intimate and sprawling, the film seems to hold all of life’s joys and heartbreaks within its frames as it follows the year of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. More...