Director | ||
HSIAO Ya-chuan | ||
Producer | ||
HSIAO Jui-lan | ||
Production Company | ||
BIT Production Co., Ltd. | ||
Country/Region | ||
Taiwan | ||
Year | | | 2017 |
Format | | | Digital |
Color | | | Color |
Length | | | 114 min |
• International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 -Big Screen Competition
• Film Fest Gent 2018 - Global Cinema Section
• Dharamshala International Film Festival 2018
• Vancouver Film Festival 2018 - Gateway's Dragons & Tigers Section
• Lychee International Film Festival 2018 - Official Competition
• Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2018
• San Diego Asian Film Festival 2018 - DISCOVERIES Section
• Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2018
• London East Asia Film Festival- LEAFF Official Selection
• Pacific Meridian Vladivostok International Film Festival 2018 - Best Actor
• Montreal World Film Festival- Chinese Film Festival Section 2nd Prize
• Taipei Film Awards 2018 - Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Art Design), Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Music), Best Director
• Golden Horse Awards 2018 - Nominated for Best Sound Effects, Best Original Film Song, Best Original Film Score, Best Art Direction, Best New Performer
60-year-old VAN Pao-te suspects that he is ill, but refuses to see a doctor. Instead, he travels with his son to Japan, in search of his own father, who abandoned him fifty years ago. At the same time, a young man from Hong Kong who is somehow related to VAn Pao-te's past arrives in Taiwan. so begins these parallel journeys of reconciliation and self-discovery... Father to Son is a story about fathers and their sons, and about Taiwan's history.