2008 Yokohama Koganecho Film Festival

横浜 黄金町映画祭　(http://www.koganecho.com/）

2006 South Taiwan Film & Video Festival

受邀參加南方影展 「華語影片觀摩單元」

(Q & A --- Producer Liang-Yin Kuo)

11/5（日）高雄十全戲院 | 高雄市十全二路21號 （07）311-7141
——購票入場 | 15:00~17:00（製片 郭亮吟參加映後座談）

11/19（日）台南全美戲院 | 台南市永福路2段187號 （06）222-4726
——購票入場 | 15:00~17:00（製片 郭亮吟參加映後座談）

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Cinema Jove International Film Festival, Spain

Verano Tranquilo(QUIET SUMMER)

Official selection---Feature Film Competition
Tuesday 20, 16:00 & Wednesday 21, 22:30, Edificio Rialto. La Filmoteca

(Q & A --- Director SHUHEI FUJITA)

The 21st Cinema Jove International Film Festival will take place in Valencia from June, 17th to 24th 2006. It is a Festival specialised in the work of Young Film-Directors, organised by the “Institut Valencià de Cinematografia Ricardo Muñoz Suay” (IVAC). Cinema Jove is accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), and is a member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals.

2006 [Silk Screen] Asian American Film Festival Pittsburgh, U.S. A

7:00 P.M. Sunday (May 14) & 7:30 P.M. Thursday(May 18), Melwood Screening Room

Silk Screen is a unique multiple-day film festival premiering May 12-20, 2006 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With more than 20 feature films, a Red Carpet Gala and filmmaker presentations, Silk Screen is shining a light on the unique films and cultures of Asia.

At loose ends after college, Shuji honors his mother’s request to take her ashes to Taiwan, the country of her birth. But the tranquil surface of Shuhei Fujita’s drama belies the churning emotions below, as along the way his young Japanese protagonist explores the many meanings of home, family, culture and exile while discovering a secret history of his own family. Shuhei composes his film in brief and often dialogueless scenes that speak volumes; it’s gorgeously photographed, and its sense of how the past permeates the present is as thoughtfully expressed as the story is left eloquently unresolved. To be screened via video projection. In English, and Mandarin, Japanese and Tagalog, with subtitle.---Bill O’Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper

2006 JOHNS HOPKINS FILM FEST, U.S.A

Sunday, April 30th, 2:00 pm, Homewood Campus, Shriver Hall

The Johns Hopkins Film Festival is a non- profit organization that seeks to promote works by budding independent and student filmmakers. Documentaries, features, and short films that have been hitting the festival circuits as well as little seen local, national, and international films will be displayed. This annual event is organized by the Johns Hopkins Film Society.

24th FAJR International Film Festival, Iran

"FESTIVAL of FESTIVALS" official selection.

Taiwan, Japan, 2005,90 min

Saturday, January 21, 2006, 16: 30

Entries in the Festival of Festivals section of Fajr International Film Festivals are selected from among films that have been screened and acclaimed at other international festivals. A total of 27 films, including 5 Iranian moviesand 3 Japanese films will be screened in this section.

QUIET SUMMER, directed by Japanese young director, Shuhei Fujita, tells the story of a young man raised in Japan, who comes to Taiwan to bury the ashes of his mother and finds his Taiwanese background. His travel quietly unfolds the happiness and sadness of a middle–aged Filipino worker and an old Chinese teacher living alone in a poor and single veteran community.

10th Pusan International Film Festival, Korea

"WIDE ANGLE" official selection.

Sunday, Oct 9th, AM 10: 30, "Megabox 3" Theater

(Q & A --- Director SHUHEI FUJITA)

Wednesday, Oct 12th, 2006, 20:30, "Megabox 3" Theater

This film follows the pain of ordinary people living on the social fringe and their historical background. Japanese director Shuhei Fujita completed it in Taiwan over a span of 4 years based on autobiographical experiences. The young Japanese Shuji visits Taiwan according to his mother’s will to have her ashes sprinkled in her hometown. On his way to his mother’s hometown, he meets various kinds of people. Among them are Renato, a laborer from the Philippines and elderly Mr. Wang who teaches Chinese at an institute. Although they differ in age and race, their lonely lives are captured in the film realistically and not in an overflowing way. Their lonely days in the streets, the subway, in their room and at work are full of solitude and such a lingering sentiment brings contemporaneous sympathy.

 At the same time, they hold a story that must be told to their family for posterity. Shuji hears about the family history of his mother’s birth place and about past experiences from Mr. Wang, who is a veteran soldier. It is surely the history of a Japanese who lived in Taiwan and a Mainlander from China. However, if you are an Asian who lived during the turbulent years of recent modern history, then it’s a memory about the past that anyone could have. Like so, the personal history of the living is told to others in a subdued voice. It’s a film that surely, though in a gradual way, understands the sense of loss, solitude, the fading past, and the compassion and camaraderie that endured it all. ---Kwon Yong-min, Pusan International Film Festival.

14th Philadelphia Film Festival, U.S.A

"WORLD FOCUS" official selection---Best Feature in Competition

Friday, April 15, 2005, PM 5:00 Prince Music Theate

(Q & A --- Director SHUHEI FUJITA)

Sunday, April PM 12:15 Prince Music Theater

(Q & A --- Director SHUHEI FUJITA)

A meditative autobiographical portrait of a Japan-raised young man's efforts to return to his Taiwanese roots, this is an affecting study of cultural identity and family.

A contemplative and assured feature directing debut for young filmmaker Shuhei Fujita, QUIET SUMMER is a sincere labor of love for the writer-director, who filmed the project over a four year period. Fujita's film examines the legacy of pre-WWII Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and explores contemporary relations between the two countries by focusing on young Shuji, arriving in Taipei from Japan just after his mother's death. Raised in Japan, Shuji has become detached from his Taiwanese ancestry, but must return to his homeland to put his mother's ashes to rest. While journeying to his mother's home village, Shuji befriends two other strangers in a strange land – a Filipino laborer working in a hostel, and a Chinese teacher who was relocated to Taiwan in 1949 and he also learns about the tragic history of his mother's family. Shuji begins to reclaim his Taiwanese roots but his father, back in Japan, is not interested in revisiting the past. With its Ozu-inspired title and director Fujita's deliberate sense of pacing and precise utilization of long takes, QUIET SUMMER is an impressively mature debut for a young director. Inspired by the experiences of Fujita's Taiwanese USC film school friends, as well as the director's own encounters making documentary films in Taiwan, QUIET SUMMER is a heartfelt personal investigation of cultural heritage and identity. (Mandarin, Japanese, English, Tagalog with English subtitles) -- Travis Crawford, Philadelphia film festival.