• lostintransition

    Oct 11, 11:23 PM by vaff

    Lost In Transition: Saturday Nov. 5th, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

    Women in motion, women in transition during various stages of life. This program traces the search for identity, belonging, the quest for companionship, and simply getting by in a complex modern world from a female point of view. In STATIONERY, a woman finds herself fixated with the quest for a paperclip. Then, in the international film 20:30:40, three women, each in a different decade of their lives, try to navigate the intricacies of living in transition.

    118 minutes

    20:30:40


    Director/Writer: Sylvia Chang | Producers: Hsu Li Kong, Patricia Cheng
    Narrative | 35 mm | Colour | 2003 | 113 minutes | Taiwan/Hong Kong | Cantonese/Mandarin with English subtitles

    Perhaps best known in the United States for her role in Ang Lee’s EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN, veteran actress Sylvia Chang has also garnered attention as the director of such acute chronicles of the modern Taiwanese woman as Siao Yu. With her delightful 10th feature, 20:30:40, she triples the pleasure with a cross-generational fictional portrait of three women in Taipei whose lives are in transition: 20-year-old Xiao Jie (Angelica Lee Sinje), an aspiring pop singer from Malaysia; 30-something flight attendant Xiang (Rene Liu), and middle-aged florist Lily (Chang herself). Chang elegantly weaves the tangentially connected stories into an unpretentious and exuberant tapestry of the women’s vigorous, often comical quest for identity, stability and companionship.

    “A gorgeously lensed romantic comedy, flecked with moments of introspection” – Variety

    Screenings/Awards: Berlin Int’l Film Festival; Calgary Int’l Film Festival; Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival; Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival; San Francisco Int’l Asian American Film Festival

    Preceded by

    Stationery


    Director/Writer: Monica Rho | Producers: Michael Fukushima, NFB
    Animation | 35mm | Colour | 2005 | 5 minutes | Canada

    This lively, witty animated film explores the complexities and paradoxes of modern life through the story of a woman who must find paperclips for a report due in the morning. Voice talent includes Christine Amber Tang and Sandra Oh.

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