FILM MATERIALS
TITLE Dawaimaha
GENRE Fiction
PRODUCTION YEAR 2023
PRODUCTION AREA Taiwan
SCREENWRITER & DIRECTOR Liu, Yueh-Ming
LANGUAGE Taiwanese
SUBTITLES Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French
WORLD PREMIERE Taipei, Taiwan
‧ FESTIVALS ‧
45th Golden Harvest Film Festival, Taiwan
‧ SYNOPSIS ‧
Longfar Temple, located in Taiwan, has housed nearly a thousand mentally, and physically disabled, poor, and deserted people for more than half-century. The masters would lead the folks to join the chorus, do chores, and release the fish fry.
Somewhere outside the Temple, a housekeeper of a resort, Lilian, just had a crush on the chef of a seafood bar, A-yong. They are troubled by where to release the goldfish they got from the scooping vendor in the night market.
Somehow, the suffering of the folks and the fish led Lilian into an erotic fantasy world.
‧ STATEMENT ‧
Religious healing was prevalent in Europe in the Middle Ages but disappeared as psychiatry and human rights awareness rises. Surprisingly, the method exists in 21st-century Taiwan, which is known for its advanced medical technology.
Longfar Temple was located in southern Taiwan, and since the 1970s, it housed almost a thousand mentally and physically disabled, and its controversial management method of “Chain of Compassion” was once famous overseas. In 2017, there was an infectious disease outbreak at the temple, which caused the government to evict people into hospitals, many of them found it challenging to get used to their new environments, and Longfar Temple has remained deserted to this day.
Dawaimaha is a magical realist film and also is the first film in Taiwan based on the purge of Longfar Temple, it presents many historical photos that were unpublished before. The director combines the expression of mockumentary and representation, and breaks the barrier between the mentally disabled and the ordinary, he highlights the sexual rights of the weak through his consistent eroticism topic. It will reveal a mysterious woman's life through a religious tour, leading the audience through her lonely and romantic feelings step by step.
TITLE Dawaimaha
GENRE Fiction
PRODUCTION YEAR 2023
PRODUCTION AREA Taiwan
SCREENWRITER & DIRECTOR Liu, Yueh-Ming
LANGUAGE Taiwanese
SUBTITLES Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French
WORLD PREMIERE Taipei, Taiwan
‧ FESTIVALS ‧
45th Golden Harvest Film Festival, Taiwan
‧ SYNOPSIS ‧
Longfar Temple, located in Taiwan, has housed nearly a thousand mentally, and physically disabled, poor, and deserted people for more than half-century. The masters would lead the folks to join the chorus, do chores, and release the fish fry.
Somewhere outside the Temple, a housekeeper of a resort, Lilian, just had a crush on the chef of a seafood bar, A-yong. They are troubled by where to release the goldfish they got from the scooping vendor in the night market.
Somehow, the suffering of the folks and the fish led Lilian into an erotic fantasy world.
‧ STATEMENT ‧
Religious healing was prevalent in Europe in the Middle Ages but disappeared as psychiatry and human rights awareness rises. Surprisingly, the method exists in 21st-century Taiwan, which is known for its advanced medical technology.
Longfar Temple was located in southern Taiwan, and since the 1970s, it housed almost a thousand mentally and physically disabled, and its controversial management method of “Chain of Compassion” was once famous overseas. In 2017, there was an infectious disease outbreak at the temple, which caused the government to evict people into hospitals, many of them found it challenging to get used to their new environments, and Longfar Temple has remained deserted to this day.
Dawaimaha is a magical realist film and also is the first film in Taiwan based on the purge of Longfar Temple, it presents many historical photos that were unpublished before. The director combines the expression of mockumentary and representation, and breaks the barrier between the mentally disabled and the ordinary, he highlights the sexual rights of the weak through his consistent eroticism topic. It will reveal a mysterious woman's life through a religious tour, leading the audience through her lonely and romantic feelings step by step.
電 影 本 事
片名 大馬哈魚
片型 劇情片
年份 2023年
產地 臺灣
編劇 導演 劉岳銘
語言 臺語
字幕 繁體中文, 英文, 日文, 法文
世界首映 臺灣 臺北
‧ 參展記錄 ‧
第45屆金穗影展觀摩單元
‧ 劇情介紹 ‧
小麗是一名度假村的房務員，她的世界簡單而寂寞，她經常拿著立可白在市場巷弄的牆壁上塗鴉，也會在大熱天把自己塞進冰箱裡。小麗迷戀著海產店廚師阿勇，他們的約會不過就是吃吃火鍋、撈撈金魚，有一天居然相約去放生金魚。
在一座巴洛克式的臺灣寺廟裡，師父們經常領著堂眾排練合唱、做做雜役、放流魚苗；一場傳染病爆發後，政府強制淨空寺院，如今人去樓空，許多堂眾未能適應外界生活，至今也乏人問津。
這些人與魚的生死情愛交織成小麗的異想世界，謎樣的身世與說不出口的慾望，使她只好在無人之境獨自泅泳。
‧ 創作理念 ‧
宗教治療曾盛行於中世紀的歐洲，隨著精神醫學與人權意識的崛起而式微，時至21世紀，在以先進醫療著稱的臺灣卻罕見存在，半個世紀以來，位處南臺灣的龍發堂收容了近千名身心障礙者、鰥寡孤獨者，其頗具爭議的「感情鍊」管理方式一度聞名海外。 2017年爆發了傳染病群聚事件，大多數的堂眾被政府強制送往其它醫護機構，一夕之間人去樓空，許多人無法適應新的環境，至今也乏人問津。
《大馬哈魚》是臺灣第一部以龍發堂肅清事件為題材的電影，其中呈現了許多從未曝光過的歷史照片，導演刻意以曖昧的觀點道出這樁歷史共業，竭力將其去議題化、去標籤化，融合了偽紀錄片、再現手法，營造出荒謬又溫馨的魔幻寫實氛圍，企圖打破精障者與一般人之間的藩籬，並以其一貫的情慾命題凸顯弱勢者的性權，透過一場宗教導覽悄然進入一名神祕女子她那浪漫且孤寂的情懷。
片名 大馬哈魚
片型 劇情片
年份 2023年
產地 臺灣
編劇 導演 劉岳銘
語言 臺語
字幕 繁體中文, 英文, 日文, 法文
世界首映 臺灣 臺北
‧ 參展記錄 ‧
第45屆金穗影展觀摩單元
‧ 劇情介紹 ‧
小麗是一名度假村的房務員，她的世界簡單而寂寞，她經常拿著立可白在市場巷弄的牆壁上塗鴉，也會在大熱天把自己塞進冰箱裡。小麗迷戀著海產店廚師阿勇，他們的約會不過就是吃吃火鍋、撈撈金魚，有一天居然相約去放生金魚。
在一座巴洛克式的臺灣寺廟裡，師父們經常領著堂眾排練合唱、做做雜役、放流魚苗；一場傳染病爆發後，政府強制淨空寺院，如今人去樓空，許多堂眾未能適應外界生活，至今也乏人問津。
這些人與魚的生死情愛交織成小麗的異想世界，謎樣的身世與說不出口的慾望，使她只好在無人之境獨自泅泳。
‧ 創作理念 ‧
宗教治療曾盛行於中世紀的歐洲，隨著精神醫學與人權意識的崛起而式微，時至21世紀，在以先進醫療著稱的臺灣卻罕見存在，半個世紀以來，位處南臺灣的龍發堂收容了近千名身心障礙者、鰥寡孤獨者，其頗具爭議的「感情鍊」管理方式一度聞名海外。 2017年爆發了傳染病群聚事件，大多數的堂眾被政府強制送往其它醫護機構，一夕之間人去樓空，許多人無法適應新的環境，至今也乏人問津。
《大馬哈魚》是臺灣第一部以龍發堂肅清事件為題材的電影，其中呈現了許多從未曝光過的歷史照片，導演刻意以曖昧的觀點道出這樁歷史共業，竭力將其去議題化、去標籤化，融合了偽紀錄片、再現手法，營造出荒謬又溫馨的魔幻寫實氛圍，企圖打破精障者與一般人之間的藩籬，並以其一貫的情慾命題凸顯弱勢者的性權，透過一場宗教導覽悄然進入一名神祕女子她那浪漫且孤寂的情懷。
