DETENTION
Director: John HSU
Producer: LEE Lieh, Aileen LI
Cast: Gingle WANG, FU Meng-Po, TSENG Ching-Hua
Genre: thriller, horror, suspense
Festival & Award:
* Golden Horse Awards – 12 nominations & 5 wins,
wins: Best New Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Film Song
nominations: Best Narrative Feature, Best Leading Actress (Gingle Wang), Best New Performer, Best Film Editing, Best Action Choreography, Best Original Film Score, Best Sound Effects
* Taipei Film Awards – 12 nominations & 6 wins
wins: Grand Prize, Best Narrative Feature, Best Actress (Gingle Wang), Best Sound Design, Best Art Design, Best Visual Effect
nominations: Best Director, Best Actor (Tseng Jing-Hua), Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Makeup & Costume Design
* Busan International Film Festival – Midnight Passion
* International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) – Voices
* Fantasporto – Orient Express Competition – Special Jury Award
* Cinemasia Film Festival – Official Selection
* Miami Film Festival – Competition
* Cleveland International Film Festival – International Narrative Competition
* Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Asian Chinese Language Film (nominated)
* Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival – International Competition
* Udine Far East Film Festival
* Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
* Fantasia International Film Festival
* Asian Pop-Up Cinema
* New York Asian Film Festival
* Asian Film Awards – nominated for Best New Director, won Best Visual Effects
* SLASH Film Festival
* Asiatica Film Festival – Flowers of Taiwan
* Brooklyn Horror Film Festival / NIGHTSTREAM
* Taiwan Film Festival in Toronto
* B3 Biennial of the Moving Image
* Denver Film Festival
* Philadelphia Film Festival
* Abertoir – The International Horror Festival of Wales
* Fractured Visions Film Festival UK
* Hawaii International Film Festival
* Leeds International Film Festival
* Films From the South – Oslo, Norway
* FANCINE – Fantastic Film Festival of Malaga
* London East Asia Film Festival
* CRASH Fantastic Film Festival, Brazil
* Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival
In 1962, a sense of desolation and tension permeate the society. Fang, a twelfth grader at Tsuihua Senior High School, falls in love with Zhang, a counselling teacher. Troubled by the problems at school and home, Fang feels that Zhang is the only person who understands her. Longing for freedom, Zhang forms a study group with his colleagues and students, including Yin and Wei. Reading the banned books allows them to be liberated for a brief moment but at the same time, they put their lives in great danger. One day, Zhang vanishes into thin air, and only Fang and Wei, an eleventh grader, remember him. Together, Fang and Wei start looking for the disappeared teacher but find the school gradually slipping out of the world they are familiar with. Then in a realm dominated by ghosts and spirits, the pair are forced to face the terrifying truth…
