DAY OFF

Writer & Director: FU Tien-yu
Executive Producer: WU Nien-Jen, Dennis WU
Cast: LU Hsiao-fen, FU Meng-po, Annie CHEN

Festival & Award:

* Osaka Asian Film Festival – Competition, wins Audience Award and Yakushi Pearl Award (best acting)
* Asian Pop-up Cinema
* Udine Far East Film Festival – Competition, wins Best Screenplay
* Singapore Chinese Film Festival – Chinese Panorama
* Taipei Film Awards – Best Actress (LU Hsiao-Fen), Best Supporting Actor (FU Meng-Po)
* Taiwan Film Festival in Australia – Audience Choice Award: Best Feature Film
* Malaysia International Film Festival
* Cross-Strait Film Exhibition – Opening Film
* Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival
* Aichi International Women’s Film Festival – Closing Film
* Taiwan Film Festival of Boston
* Taiwan Film Festival Berlin / Impression Taiwan – Closing Film
* London East Asia Film Festival – Competition
* Taiwan Film Festival in Toronto
* Asian Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
* Hawai’i International Film Festival
* San Diego Asian Film Festival – Asia Pop!
* St. Louis International Film Festival
* Golden Horse Awards – 4 nominations and 2 wins
Win: Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice FANG), Best Original Film Song
Nomination: Best Leading Actress (LU Hsiao-Fen), Best Supporting Actor (FU Meng-Po)
* Palm Springs International Film Festival – World Cinema Now
* International Women Filmmakers Festival – Golden Reel Competition
* Women’s Night Film Festival NÖFF
* Red Lotus Asian Film Festival Vienna

For forty years A-Rui has been running a barbershop, a small place where she has seen happiness and sorrow, ebb and flow. Faced with all the troubles in her life, A-Rui fully commits to her work and defeat is never an option for her, but her children never appreciate it and treat her profession with disdain. One day, A-Rui receives a phone call from the family of an old regular client who moved far away a long time ago. The family asks A-Rui if she would be willing to travel to cut the hair for the bedridden old man. Reminded of what her master taught her, “Always provide your best service,” A-Rui decides to hang up the “Day Off” sign and closes her shop for one day. She drives her beat-up old car and embarks on a long journey to do something others think is not worthwhile.