Coming to select Cinema Nouveau theatres is the Taiwanese film festival that will give you a lot more than you bargained for. With 4 critically acclaimed films that is sure to give audiences their money’s worth. Read on to get more information in regards to the when, where, how and what…
A FREE TAIWANESE EXPERIENCE AT STER-KINEKOR CINEMA NOUVEAU
The 5th Annual Taiwan Festival comes to the big screen
Join Ster-Kinekor Theatres Cinema Nouveau for the screening of four original and captivating films at the 5th annual Taiwan Film Festival hosted by Taipei Liaison Office in the RSA. Featuring the award winning Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale as well as Hear Me, Yang Yang and Orz Boys, the festival promises to provide audiences with a unique cultural experience.
Screening to the public at no cost and launching on 31 August 2012, the Taiwan Film Festival will give Cinema Nouveau audiences an opportunity to experience the beauty of film from Taiwan. Free tickets for each film can be collected at the box office one hour before each screening – first come, first served.
“The Taiwan Film Festival solidifies our commitment to providing audiences with a diverse range of cinema entertainment. It is also very exciting that we can showcase the highly acclaimed Warriors of the Rainbows: Seediq Bale, which has won a number of awards including; winner of the 2011 Venice Film Festival Official Competition, Best Feature Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound Effect, Best Original Film Score, Audience Choice Awards at the 48th Golden Horse Awards (2011) as well as the Best Film Award at the 12th Chinese Film Media Awards (2011),” commented Lola Gallant, Marketing Manager, Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau.
Directed by WEI Te-Sheng, Warriors of the Rainbows: Seediq Bale is the epic tale of two races that clashed to defend their faith in the mountains of Taiwan where one race (Seediq) believes in rainbows and the other (the Japanese) in the sun. Set in the early 20th century, the film takes audiences on a historical venture as the Seediq tribes plot a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters. When the revolution begins, the Japanese troops threaten to crush the Seediq but the tribesmen are sustained by their beliefs and myths.
The inspiring film shows how one of the Seediq beliefs was that young males in the tribes had to undergo a rite of passage to become adult men, which gave them the right to have their faces tattooed. In the tribal language, they became Seediq Bale – real man, with the belief that the ancestors would lead the spirits of the Seediq Bale across a rainbow bridge to the summit of the mountain when their time came.
This film is tribute to the diverse offering at this year’s Taiwan Film Festival, which will be screened as follows:
Johannesburg Rosebank Cinema Nouveau:
31 August:
20.15: Yang Yang
1 September:
14.30: Hear Me
17.30: Orz Boys
20.15: Yang Yang
2 September:
14.30: Orz Boys
17.30: Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Pretoria Brooklyn Cinema Nouveau:
7 September:
20.15: Yang Yang
8 September:
14.30: Hear Me
17.30: Orz Boys
20.15: Yang Yang
9 September:
14.30: Orz Boys
17.30: Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Cape Town Cavendish Square Nouveau:
14 September:
20.15: Yang Yang
15 September:
14.30: Hear Me
17.30: Orz Boys
20.15: Yang Yang
16 September:
14.30: Orz Boys
17.30: Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
For information visit www.cinemanouveau.co.za or call our Ticketline on 082 16789. You can also go to sterkinekor.mobi or follow us on Twitter @sktheatres or @nouveabuz or Facebook at Ster-Kinekor Theatres. Download the Ster-Kinekor app onto your Nokia or Samsung Android phone.
