The Most Distant Course
* 2007 Venice Film Festival - International Critics' Week Award for Best Film
* 2007 Taipei Golden Horse Awards - Best Sound
* 2008 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
A recording engineer who just broke up with his girlfriend travels to fulfill their dream of recording the sound of Formosa. A girl trapped in
her office works receives packages which are not sent to her and sets foot on a new journey. A psychologist who is able to point out the cruelest truth to help his patients realizes that he himself is the one who needed help. The three characters, with their own purpose, arrive at the east coast of Taiwan, looking for chances and changes for their lives. Parallel narrations follow the three characters through their isolation. Isolation nonetheless is not branded as something negative, but instead constitutes a space for the characters's elf-reflection and painful discovery of who they are. In contrast with other films that observe their characters' process of self-recognition, The Most Distant Course avoids perfunctory or simplistic solutions.
Director LIN Jing-Jie
Lin Jing-Jie (b.1967, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) devoted to literary works, films and theatre direction. A recognized artist of distinction in these areas,
Lin's books and films have won him a number of prestigious awards. He makes both feature films and documentaries. His filmography includes a number of short and medium-length films. The Most Distant Course is Lin's big-screen feature-film debut.
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