HUNTER BROTHERS — TAROKO, TAIWAN. PREMIERE & TALK

19th Native Spirit Festival & East South East Film Night (ESEA) & CCCC Bloomsbury present HUNTER BROTHERS premiere at CAMDEN CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTRE followed by specially recorded talk with Director HUNG-EN SU and Noel Zhang.

HUNTER BROTHERS 2024 | 1h 34min
Synopsis: Lin Hsiang and Lin Cheng are brothers, whose lives are completed changed by a tragic accident in the mountains. Lin Cheng goes to prison, while Lin Hsiang successfully becomes a licensed doctor and serves their village. Several years later, Lin Cheng is released from jail. His appearance turns Lin Hsiang’s ordered life upside down. Lin Cheng wants to go back to the forest, where the accident occurred, but Lin Hsiang is considering conceding the forest to mining companies.

Their conflict escalates. Meanwhile, Lin Hsiang’s wife, Yi Wen, discovers that her husband was the one responsible, but Lin Cheng became the scapegoat for his brother’s crime at their uncle’s insistence. Yi Wen realizes her husband is not as perfect as she thought, and Lin Cheng is not as rough as he seems. In the end, the two brothers return to the forest to resolve their conflicts regarding the land, their father, and Lin Cheng’s time in prison, hoping for a better outcome. Can they find their lost brotherhood in this land of origins?

Director Biography: Su Hung-En, received his MFA degree of Radio, Television and Film in Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. Born to Indigenous Truku, Taroko and Taiwanese parents. Constant switching between these identities helps him to see this world from different perspectives. His film works are about Indigenous people's issues and social problems, and this is his first feature.

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About Taroko people (Chinese: 太魯閣族; pinyin: Tàilǔgézú), also known as Truku people, are an Indigenous Taiwanese people. Taroko is also the name of the area of Taiwan where the Taroko reside. The Executive Yuan, Republic of China has officially recognized the Taroko since 15 January 2004. Taroko are the 12th aboriginal group in Taiwan to receive this recognition. Previously, Taroko and related Seediq people were classified in the Atayal group.[2] Taroko people demanded a separate status for themselves in a "name rectification" campaign. Taroko resisted and fought the Japanese in the 1914 Truku War. —Wikipedia

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