Parking

On Mother’s Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to rekindle their estranged relationship. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches the floors of a nearby apartment building for the owner of the illegally parked car, and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple who have lost their only son, a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish head soup, a Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches, and a Hong Kong tailor embroiled in debt. After many hardships, Chen-Mo finally gets his car out of the parking space, and, with new friends riding beside him, advances toward a new horizon in life.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Script: Mong-Hong Chung

Cinematography: Mong-Hong Chung

Editing: Shih-Jing Lo

Sound: Duu-Chih Tu

Music: An Dong

Actors: Chang Chen (Chen Mo/Little Ma), Lun-Mei Kwai (Chen mo/Chen Mo’s wife), Leon Dai (Pimp), Chapman To (tailor), Jack Kao (barber), Peggy Tseng (prostitute)

Production: Cream Film Production

Producers: Shao-Chien Tseng, Jane H Hsiao

Art Direction: Shih-Hao Chao

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: Taiwan

Production Year: 2008

Duration: 106

Contact: Good FilmsWorkshop, TaiwanT. +88 69 3696 8411ritachuang@hotmail.com

Mong-Hong Chung

He was born in 1965 in Ping-Tong, Taiwan. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from National Chao Tung University in Taiwan, and his M.F.A. in Filmmaking fromt he School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1997, he has directed over a hundred TV commercials. His first documentary film, Doctor, has won acclaim at many international film festivals for its poetic cinematography and sensitive treatment of a father’s bereavement. Parking is his first narrative film and was screened at the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes IFF 2008.