East Winds Film Festival 2014 Preview
The East Winds Film Festival which takes place in Coventry is one of the biggest showcases for East Asian films outside of London. From October 31st to November 02nd, audiences will have the chance to experience a great line-up of films from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Japan.
Here are the films which will be shown. Click on the films to get taken to the festival page for more information:
Friday, October 31st
Three teenage boys come across the body of a classmate who has just committed suicide. Although they never really knew her, the circumstances of her suicide strike them as suspicious and so they investigate her death which leads to dark secrets…
9PM Greatful Dead
The story follows Nami, a young woman with a dysfunctional childhood who is a peeping tom who spies on old men who have gone crazy from loneliness. One particular old man provides great entertainment for her Nami. When some Christian missionaries promise to bring him happiness, Nami takes drastic steps… This black-comedy will be getting a UK release courtesy of Third Window Films later this year.
Saturday, November 01st
1PM Lust of Angels
This film has been feature on Anime UK News when we recently brought information of the New Directors from Japan DVD that Third Window Films held a Kickstarter campaign for. The DVD will soon be released, and this is a great opportunity for people to view the action on the big screen. The story starts when Saori, a schoolgirl, is molested on the notorious “molester train” of the Hanagawa line and rescued by another school girl who witnesses the act. The girl is a transfer student named Yuriko and dark rumours swirl around her. As Saori begins to orbit Yuriko, shocking events happen…
2PM Laddaland,
This looks to be a cross between Ju-On and Amityville and is supposedly based on the real story. It starts when a father takes his family to a luxurious residential development called Laddaland. When a Burmese maid dies, a ghost shows up and dark secrets are revealed.
4PM Z Storm
Z Storm is a crime thriller about an anti-corruption investigator who sees what should have been an airtight case against a cop and a money laundering accountant fail spectacularly. It turns out that they are the minions of a wealthy financial tycoon and that the corruption is bigger than he expected.
7PM The Swimmers
This is a school-based horror which starts with a love-triangle between two members of the swim team and a girl and it ends in death. When the girl is found at the bottom of the school pool it turns out that she is pregnant. One of the boys has a guilty conscience and the other is angry and desperate to find out why she committed suicide.
In this Japanese/South Korean co-production a reporter named Kim So-yeon is contacted by a childhood friend named Park Sang-joon. He has recently escaped a mental hospital where he was locked up for murdering eighteen people. At the risk of possible harm, she takes him up on the offer of getting an exclusive story behind the killing spree. When she find him he explains to her that he has been hearing the voice of God and has been promised a “miracle” if he kills twenty-five people. Kim So-yeon soon finds herself caught up in his madness since he is a few shy of his final target…
Sunday, November 02nd
1:30PM Live @ Love
After a lot of horror films, the third day is more light-hearted beginning with this Taiwanese crime comedy about an experienced detective and her inexperienced but handsome assistant investigating a murder.
4PM Bugs 3D
Giant bugs in 3D! This Chinese film takes inspiration from Hollywood B-movie pictures from the 60s and 70s. It all starts with scientists create bugs that provide high-quality protein at a low-cost. They are also deadly killers and so it should come as no surprise that they escape and start hunting humans. As is usually the case, some silly holiday makers decide to investigate…
6PM Wonder Mama
Ah-Oi is a 49-year-old librarian who lives with her parents and 30-year-old unemployed son. Her husband is missing but life isn’t too tough and she is looking forward to retiring. Then she learns her teenage maid has been impregnated by her 70-year old father. With her parents’ set to divorce at on old age and her home life falling apart, Ah-Oi finds her peace shattered.
This comedy-drama has been selected as Thailand’s official entry into the Oscars’ foreign-language division and follows the intertwining stories of two lonely teachers posted to the same rural school a year apart from each other. When Sukrit “Bie” Wisetkaew is given work at a remote floating schoolhouse out in the middle of nowhere, he finds an illustrated diary left by his predecessor, the headstrong and opinionated Ann and, as he reads it, he slowly falls in love with her and begins to add entries of his own. When he leaves, Ann returns and finds that her battered diary has been expanded upon. Even though the two have never met, a bond is formed.
The full schedule and tickets are now available at www.eastwindsfilmfest.com.
