Boluomi

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FILM NAME

菠蘿蜜

YEAR

2019 | 108min

AWARDS & FESTIVAL

2019 Busan International Film Festival New Currents
2019 Vancouver International Film Festival
2019 Golden Horse Awards Nominations for Best New Director

SALES CONTACT

Mirror Stage Films Co., Ltd.- SUN Tsung-han

TEL
MOBILE

+886-927-038-003

Over the decades, the Malayan Communist Party fought a guerrilla war in the jungle for independence. When a baby was born during the war, they sent it out of the jungle to ensure its survival. Boluomi is one of those babies.

‘Boluomi’ is a famous fruit everyone appreciates in Malaysia. But it is also Yi-fan’s father’s name, Boluomi, whom past history remains unknown to all, and with whom Yi-fan’s relation remains non-existent.

Unbeknownst to Yi-fan, some hidden secrets from a bygone era seem to taint their father- son relation and poisons everything around. Besides, like many in his generation, Yi-fan is forced to flee Malaysia because of the unequal right to education due to racial discrimination. His journey drives him overseas, Taiwan. In Taipei, Yi-fan succeeds in making a living and meets with a Filipino illegal worker, Laila. Both strangers to this city, they have no language in common to speak, but they do share the same sense of nostalgia and homesickness, and eventually fall in love with each other.

CREDIT

DIRECTOR LAU Kek-kuat
PRODUCER LIN Shih-ken
CAST WU Nien-hsuan, Laila Ulao
PRODUCTION COMPANY Hummingbird Productions Co., Outland Film Production