Taiwan’s ‘Paradise’ opening film at biggest Asian festival
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THE 19th Busan International Film Festival opened yesterday with a parade of stars on the red carpet and the screening of Taiwanese film “Paradise in Service.”
Director Doze Niu said it was a great honor to have his film — which follows the story of a boy undertaking military service in preparation for a possible war — selected to open Asia’s biggest film festival.
“There has been a lot of despair and pain in history and I think Chinese people and Korean people share this kind of history and can recognize this part of our history best,” said Niu.
“The Chinese people on the mainland and in Taiwan are one and the same and I hope this film will help pave the way for us to find ways to work for a better future.”
The film was screened in front of a star-studded opening night crowd that featured Asian A-listers Ken Watanabe, Tang Wei, Zhang Yimou and Tadanobu Asano, as well as Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and fellow arthouse favorites Bela Tarr and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
Hong Kong director Ann Hui, whose feature about Chinese author Xiao Hong is called “The Golden Era,” is there to accept the festival’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year award.
The festival will be featuring more than 300 films — including around 100 world premieres — drawn from 79 countries and regions. It ends next
Saturday.
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