在世界轉角遇見愛 The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner 

史帝芬．柯曼達瑞夫 Stephan Komandarev

2008 / Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia / 35mm / Color / 105min

2008 蘇黎世影展觀眾票選最佳影片 / 2008 華沙國際影展評審團特別獎 / 2008 保加利亞蘇菲亞影展最佳本國影片、觀眾票選最佳影片

住在德國的亞歷山大，因為一場嚴重車禍而失去了記憶。此時一名自稱是他祖父的男子百丹卻突然出現，送給他一張老照片和一副西洋雙陸棋，並要帶他「回家」。亞歷山大雖對百丹十分陌生，但當他如數家珍地說出了自己幼時的種種，卻使他驚訝不已。為重新喚回記憶，亞歷山大決定追隨百丹，展開一趟「回家」之旅…。

After a car accident, Alex can't even remember his name. In an attempt to cure him from amnesia, his Bulgarian grandfather Bai Dan organizes a spiritual journey for his grandson, back into his past, to the country where he came from. While traveling across time and place and crossing half of Europe, they play backgammon, the simplest, and yet the most complex of all games. This game leads Alex to recall who he is, and that backgammon is the key to his backstory.

6/30(二) 中山 16.00 ★

找一張床 Unmade Beds 

亞歷克‧多斯．桑度斯 Alexis Dos Santos

2008 / UK / 35mm / Color / 93min

2009 柏林影展 Generation 14plus競賽單元 / 2009 日舞影展國際競賽單元

你這輩子睡過幾張床？來自西班牙的艾索常在不同的床鋪醒來，疑惑身邊躺的是誰？前晚到底發生過什麼事？來自比利時的薇拉因情傷渴望愛神降臨，對情人的床有股依戀。地點在倫敦東區次文化重地，從世界各地流浪到倫敦的年輕人，在同一屋簷下來來去去。未來對他們來說太模糊，年輕的波希米亞在地下音樂與繽紛派對之中，彼此相濡以沫。

Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers and move on from a recent heartbreak. Their stories interweave as they take up residence in a vibrant, sprawling squat in the melting pot of London’s hip East End. Although they live in the same warehouse and their stories cross repeatedly, Axl and Vera never actually meet. Playful, sexy and romantic, Unmade Beds is the second film from acclaimed director Alexis Dos Santos.

6/29(一) 中山 19.30 ★（導演或影人出席映前或映後座談）

火蜥蜴 Salamander

帕布洛．阿圭羅 Pablo Agüero

2008 / Argentina, France, Germany / 35mm / Color / 91min

2008 坎城影展導演雙週單元 / 2008 多倫多影展

即使受傷，火蜥蜴仍有能力自我療癒，浴火重生。才剛識字的印帝，從未想過媽媽的出現，竟讓無憂生活產生重大轉變。他被媽媽帶到嬉皮的化外之地－巴塔哥尼亞谷地，展開自由新生活。沒想到裡頭盡是雜交、吸毒、狂歡，印帝睜著驚惶雙眼張看著這荒唐的成人世界，他必須絕地求生！童星強悍的精湛演技，更添影片批判力道，令人讚嘆。

After the dictation in Argentina, Alba, just out of prison, comes to get her six-year-old son, Inti, to El Bolson, a lost valley in Patagonia where renegades from all corners of the world find refuge. In an endless party, gather among the “enlightened”, the hippies, insects and animals. The children of the peasants have fun by attacking the houses of newcomers. They try to build a new life. Alba hanging on to her dreams, Inti to his survival kit.

6/30(二) 中山 13.30 ★（導演或影人出席映前或映後座談）

腦海中的喧囂 The Noise in My Head 

文森．普魯斯 Vincent Pluss

2008 / Germany, Switzerland / 35mm / Color / 90min

2008 芝加哥影展 / 2008 蒙特婁影展

愛情事業兩失意的蘿拉，在人生最谷底時，邂逅一位正在販售免費報紙的逃家少年西蒙。蘿拉就像撿到流浪狗似地帶他回家，但心中的怨氣仍然持續高漲，對慾望的異想也不由自主浮現。當她腦中的雜音越來越大，她該有的理性是否會跟著被吞噬掉？大量近身的特寫鏡頭，反映真實人性的樣貌，並在現實及虛構間流竄，讓人更加理解角色的複雜情緒。

After studying abroad, Laura returns to Geneva. She is in her early thirties and her life should contain some sort of stability by now. Feeling lost, she tries to act as an average person but the voice inside her head always tries to make her act differently. One evening, she meets Simon, a wandering teenager who sells “free” newspapers and invites him to her flat. Soon, she finds herself helpless about the harsh way in which he takes over control.

6/26(五) 新二 15.30

屈辱 Disgrace 

史提夫．雅各斯 Steve Jacobs

2008 / Australia, South Africa / 35mm / Color / 120min

2008 多倫多影展費比西獎 / 2008 中東影展最佳影片

資深演員史提夫．雅各斯的第二部導演作品，改編諾貝爾文學獎得主柯慈的《屈辱》，由百變演員約翰‧馬可維奇擔綱演出。白人教授強迫與學生發生關係，因拒絕指控被迫離開教職，遂前往女兒的農場尋求寧靜。一場意外的暴力侵害，輕易突顯種族隔離雖已解除，文化差異卻從未弭平的鴻溝。權利地位的翻轉，價值觀的衝擊迎面而來，求全是一種屈辱還是和平？

Disgrace takes place in post-apartheid South Africa. David Lurie, a university professor, is fired from his job for a passionate but brief affair with a student who is ambivalent about his embraces. This “disgrace” causes him to retreat to his daughter Lucie’s isolated farm. The tentative emotional truce between errant father and daughter soon gives way to a more peaceful rural life…until it is ripped apart by a traumatic and violent attack which forces them both to re-evaluate their beliefs.

7/01(三) 中山 11.00

不灯港 The Dark Harbor 

内藤隆嗣 Takatsugu Naito

2008 / Japan / 35mm / Color / 101min

2009 鹿特丹影展競賽單元

從沒交過女友的漁夫萬造，他的辛酸寂寞誰人知曉？某天漁會準備為打魚郎舉辦相親大會，大好機會終於降臨在他身上，為了終結孤單，他還慎重自拍一段影片。不過萬造在大會上似乎吃不太開，但他的自拍影片反倒引起一陣騷動；原來他的幸福，竟在自家的櫥櫃裡…。妙趣橫生的PIA影展首獎之作，展現新生代導演對日本社會特有的觀察與Kuso幽默。

Manzo is a 38-year-old bachelor and a lonely fisherman. "I can't stand this anymore." His deep sorrow echoes emptily in the house. One day, a party for prospective brides to meet the bachelors in town takes place. Manzo wears his best outfit and attends the party, but the result is a crushing defeat. Then, intruders suddenly appear in the lonely house. He warms up to the two intruders because he longs for a happy family. A strange house-sharing situation is born.

6/30(二) 中山 11.00 ★（導演或影人出席映前或映後座談）

窒息暴戾 Breathless 

梁益準 YANG Ik-june

2008 / South Korea / 35mm / Color / 130min

2008 釜山影展 / 2009 鹿特丹影展最佳影片金虎獎

專門討債的金相勳，他的性格乖張暴躁，連警察都不放在眼裡，不太精明的外表，暴力似乎是他與生俱來的基因，「父親」更是他生命中的一大禁忌。直到一個任性粗魯的高中女生出現，金相勳的本性才慢慢浮現…。南韓A咖演員梁益俊，根據親身經驗自編自導自演，130分鐘的暴力與髒話，震撼宛如韓國版《殘酷大街》。

Sang-hoon, a merciless debt collector, grew up with rage and hatred towards his father. The shadow of the past overrules his present. One day, he meets a high school girl, Yeon-hee, who is also having a tough life after her mother’s death. Sang-hoon and Yeon-hee share some moments of relief and escape from brutal physical and emotional abuse. He discovers that perhaps he can change and affect people around him, but it may be too late to start his life over again.

7/01(三) 中山 16.30 ★（導演或影人出席映前或映後座談）