JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

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UNTOLD HERSTORY

Zero CHOU

Taiwan 2022 112min DCP Color/B&W Fiction 15Korean Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
222	2023. 04. 29	13:30	CGV Jeonjugosa 2	HKE15	Ticket Wish
326	2023. 04. 30	13:30	CGV Jeonjugosa 5	HKE15	Ticket Wish
437	2023. 05. 01	16:00	CGV Jeonjugosa 1	HKE15	Ticket Wish

Overview

On Green Island in the 1950s, the female 'thought prisoners' chose to fight for freedom, but were more forcefully suppressed by the authorities. They held onto their beliefs and hoped for true freedom to come.

Review

Based on a true story, UNTOLD HERSTORY is about a tragedy in Taiwan’s modern history. After being displaced from mainland China, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government committed many atrocities of white terrorism in the name of purging and edifying the left, one of which was the creation of a concentration camp on a remote island called Green Island in southeastern Taiwan. More than 100 women and men, most of them still young students, were imprisoned for reading banned books, speaking out in favor of the left, or meeting with blacklisted figures, and were subjected to severe labor, indoctrination, and forced to live in misery. Records indicate that 26 women were executed, though some say the number was more than that. Similar to South Korea’s Samchung re-education camp in the 1980s, the victims of the tragedy remained silent for many years, and even the Taiwanese government considered the case taboo and left it as a buried story. While director Zero CHOU occasionally overdramatizes, the film is a heartfelt requiem to the many people who have been victimized and forgotten in an age of barbarism. (CHUN Jinsu)

CREDIT

DirectorZero CHOU
ProducerPasuya YAO, Chang-Yung CHANG
ScreenplayMin-Hsuan WU, Zero CHOU
CinematographyHoho LIU
GafferChun-Liang HSIAO

Production DesignChin-Hsien CHOU
MusicLu-Ming LU
EditorZero CHOU, Xiao-Jing CHEN
SoundBook CHIEN

CastPei-Jen YU, Yu-Han LIEN, Herb HSU, Tau HSU

FILM SOURCE

thuànn Taiwan Film Corporation ㅣ ivymavis@gmail.com

DIRECTOR

Zero CHOU

Born in 1969, Keelung, Taiwan. She has directed six films, including Spider Lilies (2007) which won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale. Her works are philosophical and literary, often based on the motif of female emotions, bringing in thoughts of fate.

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