Ming-Kai and Ah-Jie are searching for their place in a world not made for them. As the boys roam the neighboring corn field looking for somewhere to settle, they decide to occupy an empty rooftop in order to fill it with their curiosities, dreams and memories.
Ming-Kai and Ah-Jie are searching for their place in a world not made for them. As the boys roam the neighboring corn field looking for somewhere to settle, they decide to occupy an empty rooftop in order to fill it with their curiosities, dreams and memories.
BURNING
(Shao)
Taiwan 2022 / 12′
a film by
Tang Hao
with
Coco Auston Li
Cutedodo
| Screenplay | Tang Hao |
| Director of Photography | Chang Ahi Teng |
| Production Design | Lin Jhih Yun |
| Costumes | Lin Jhih Yun |
| Editor | Kao Ming Cheng |
| Sound | Jimmy Lin |
| Producer | Kumi Fu |
| Production | Tang Hao |
| Distribution | Esen Studios |
AWARDS
- Cortisonici International Short Film Festival
Italy, 2024
WINNER
Official Selections
- Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival (France)
| Oscar Qualifying Festival - Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium)
| Oscar Qualifying Festival - Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg (Germany)
- Minimalen Short Film Festival (Norway)
- Festival Tous Courts (France)
- Art Film Fest Kosice (Slovakia)
- Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan)
- Micro μ Festival (Greece)
- Cortisonici International Short Film Festival (Italy)
- Capri, Hollywood (Italy)
- Euroshorts Young Filmmakers (Poland)
- Torino Underground Cinefest (Italy)
- Spicy Indie International Film Festival (Greece)
- International Children Care Film Festival (France)
- The Quarantine Film Festival (Bulgaria)
Tang Hao
Tang Hao was born in 1997. Raised in the rural south of Taiwan. He is doing his MFA (Film Directing) at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He made music videos and works as a screenwriter with an awarded work Cupid on Target (2017). Burning (2022) is his first short. The filmmaker returns to his hometown to tell stories that root in the earth.
Tang Hao
Tang Hao was born in 1997. Raised in the rural south of Taiwan. He is doing his MFA (Film Directing) at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He made music videos and works as a screenwriter with an awarded work Cupid on Target (2017). Burning (2022) is his first short. The filmmaker returns to his hometown to tell stories that root in the earth.
Director statement :
We grow up through numerous encounters, no matter good or bad. Sometimes these encounters become unforgettable memories, like magic moments in our lives. Sometimes we might be traumatized by what we have experienced, and they might last forever. The two kids explore the world in their own way. When something happens, there is no turning back. The cornfield is exactly the same as in my childhood memory, only back then it was taller than me. I returned to my hometown located in the rural area of Southern Taiwan to mourn for of my restless youth in the barren fields.
Director statement :
We grow up through numerous encounters, no matter good or bad. Sometimes these encounters become unforgettable memories, like magic moments in our lives. Sometimes we might be traumatized by what we have experienced, and they might last forever. The two kids explore the world in their own way. When something happens, there is no turning back. The cornfield is exactly the same as in my childhood memory, only back then it was taller than me. I returned to my hometown located in the rural area of Southern Taiwan to mourn for of my restless youth in the barren fields.