| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 8:00PM - 9:45PM | External Event, Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George) |
**Tickets for all screenings including opening night can be purchased 30 minutes before start time at the venue box office.**
Parking (2008) | Director Chung Mung-Hong | 106 min.
On Mother’s Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo makes a dinner date with his wife, hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches for the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple who have lost their only son and are living with their precocious granddaughter; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and threatened by underground loan sharks. Combining the different flavours of drama, comedy, and noir film, PARKING interweaves stories to create a moving and darkly funny film, served up in a superb cinematography that will have you transfixed to the screen.
Awards:
2008 Golden Horse Award, Best Art Direction and FIPRESCI Critics Award;
2008 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Best New Talent and Audience Favourite Film
2009 !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival, Most Inspired Film Director
PARKING is distributed by Evokative Films
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