The 2022 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (TGHFF) has set Chan Ching-lin’s family drama Coo-Coo 043 as its opening film and Cheng Wei-hao’s comedy Marry My Dead Body as its closer.
The two Taiwanese films will bookend the largest and the longest-running film festival in Taiwan, which is set to be held in-person from November 2-20 and includes the prestigious Golden Horse Film Awards.
Coo-Coo 043 follows a couple who makes a living with racing pigeons, but the economic downturn and the disappearance of their son is breaking the family apart. It stars Golden Bell Awards winners Yu An-shun and Yang Li-yin alongside Golden Harvest Awards best new performer Hu Jhih-ciang and newcomer Rimong Ihwar.
Director Chan’s works often depict the under-privileged groups in the society and Coo-Coo 043 is his second feature film after The Island That All Flow By, which was nominated for best new director at the 2017 Golden Horse Awards. His short film A Breath From The Bottom won best short film at the 2013 Golden Horse Awards.
Marry My Dead Body, which will receive its world premiere at the festival, stars Austin Lin and Greg Han as a cop and a ghost who are accidentally bound together as a married couple, transcending boundaries of death and gender.
It marks a departure from Cheng’s previous works, which comprise horrors and thrillers such as The Tag-Along, which was selected as TGHFF’s closing film in 2015, Who Killed Cock Robin and The Soul.
TGHFF has yet to announce its full line-up, but its 2021 edition included 172 films, recording attendance of nearly 70,000 across 445 screenings.
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