ACF 1246: WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW encores at MoMA

 Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

Written and directed by Wei Te-sheng

With Lin Ching-tai, Umin Boya, Ando Masanobu, Vivian Hsu Ando

Taiwan, 2011, 150 minutes
When: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 5:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Where: MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, NYC 

In Japanese and Seediq; English subtitles

 

Tomorrow afternoon, MoMA will present the second and final screening of Wei Te-sheng’s historical epic, fresh from its recent world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film offers a unique retelling of a little-known episode from 20th-century history: between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan was a Japanese colony inhabited by both Han Chinese immigrants and the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the land. In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of one of these Seediq tribes, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal heads and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters. Wei Tesheng’s previous film, Cape No. 7, became Taiwan’s highest-grossing film ever, thus allowing him to realize this ambitious passion project, which has been in the planning stages for a decade.

This screening is part of the series In Focus: Fortissimo Films.