Peasant Boy

LIAO Bo-Yan

Taiwan〡2023〡Fic〡Color〡23 min〡Mandarin, Taiwanese
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Minwei and his friend Aaron are engaged in part-time work in the pesticide spraying business, but Minwei's health is deteriorating due to long-term exposure to pesticides. Aaron advises Minwei to find another job, which leads to an argument between them.

Director

LIAO Bo-Yan

An independent actor and video worker, he has long been concerned about social issues in Taiwan, and is good at transforming life experience into creative nutrition. Theatrical performances are scattered in student productions, Kaohsiung filming, PTV student drama exhibitions, etc. The representative actors of "Wild Tide" and "Rebel Boy" have been shortlisted for the Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Film Festival and many other domestic and foreign film festivals. His first directing film was ”PEASANT BOY“.

11.14 ㊃  16:30 〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡 Q&A session with the Director
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春分之時,插秧種豆農民勞作。生活在鄉間從事農藥代噴的年輕人,面臨的家庭、生計、友誼、同儕、健康、信仰、文化……諸多課題,在日常而細微的影像中被看見,也讓人思索台灣之食背後深刻的環境、社會、經濟議題。

In Taiwan's rural agricultural areas, there is a lot of demand for spraying pesticides. In the era of modern technological advancement, Many jobs are risky and you can choose, but when growing up in remote villages, children from many families must be independent and rely on their own efforts. Family dysfunction also leads to behavioral deviations, high school dropout, theft, etc. In such a growing environment , so that they cannot choose the job they want, and can only do jobs that others are less willing to do, such as cement assistants, moving vegetables with cars, spraying pesticides... etc. Those with deviant behavior even start selling drugs, violently snatching debts, etc. This film explores the growth and changes of teenagers.

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