EYE OF THE STORM

Director: LIN Chun-Yang

Cast: WANG Po Chieh, TSENG Jing Hua, HSUEH Shih Ling, Chloe XIANG

Festival & Award:
* Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival – Opening Film
* Taipei Film Festival – 13 nominations
wins: Best Director, Best Actor (WANG Po Chieh), Best Art Design, Best Visual Effects, Outstanding Artistic Contribution
nominations: Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Makeup & Costume Design, Best Sound Design
* New York Asian Film Festival
* Golden Horse Awards – 8 nominations and 2 wins
Wins: Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction
Nominations: Best Narrative Feature, Best Leading Actor (WANG Po Chieh), Best Cinemarography, Best Original Film Score, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects

While on the way to celebrate his five-year-old daughter’s birthday, Dr. Zheng XIA, an attending thoracic surgeon in Taipei, is called back to the hospital due to an emergency patient. Without any warning, Xia is trapped in the hospital closure with nearly a thousand health care providers, patients and their families.

Another patient of Xia, tabloid journalist, Youzhong JIN, catches wind of an unknown virus spreading across hospitals. Based on his journalistic instincts, Jin and Xia partners up to search for the origin of the virus. To Jin’s surprise, he finds himself somehow related to the source.

Young male registered nurse, Tai Ho AN, and the intern, Xin Yan LI, are also trapped by the hospital closure. The two newcomers prioritize taking care of the patients and forget the fact that they too, are in a dangerous environment.

Despite the high possibility of infection, they all make the most unthinkable choices – Helping others is the ultimate salvation in an epidemic!