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Hello! Tapir

Hello! Tapir

2DCS/ES12
Director:Kethsvin Chee
Cast:Charlie Yeung, Bai Run-yin, Lu Hsueh-feng, Lee Lee-zen
Premiere:2. December 2021
Length:89 minutes
Genre:Fantasy, Drama

Director: Kethsvin Chee  •  Cast: Charlie Yeung, Bai Run-yin, Lu Hsueh-feng, Lee Lee-zen

People in Taiwanese fishing villages live in close contact with nature. They leave their homes to spend long periods of time on fishing boats where they are exposed to the forces of nature. This becomes all too evident to Ah Keat whose father does not return from such a trip one day. What happened to him? The boy’s family give no answers and start avoiding the issue. He is still just a boy and cannot understand, anyway. But his father once told him a story about a magical tapir he had seen in the wild as a boy – a creature with the body of a pig, nose of an elephant, the ears of a horse and feet like a rhinoceros. Perhaps this mythical creature can help Ah Keat solve the mystery. Afterall, legend says it can devour nightmares.

Hello! Tapir by young director Kethsvin Chee not only uniquely combines a live-action film and animation, but it subtly depicts a world of a boy grieving and his thirst for knowledge. It sensibly brings together comic and touching moments and conveys to the audience the creative mind of a child. It stands somewhere between family dramas of Hirokazu Koreeda and adventure trips of The Rapid Arrows. Hello! Tapir is surely the only picture of its kind able to captivate all generations.

Length: 89 min

Year: 2020
Local premiere date: 2. December 2021
World premiere date: 17. November 2020

Country of origin:

  • Taiwan

Director: Kethsvin Chee  •  Cast: Charlie Yeung, Bai Run-yin, Lu Hsueh-feng, Lee Lee-zen

People in Taiwanese fishing villages live in close contact with nature. They leave their homes to spend long periods of time on fishing boats where they are exposed to the forces of nature. This becomes all too evident to Ah Keat whose father does not return from such a trip one day. What happened to him? The boy’s family give no answers and start avoiding the issue. He is still just a boy and cannot understand, anyway. But his father once told him a story about a magical tapir he had seen in the wild as a boy – a creature with the body of a pig, nose of an elephant, the ears of a horse and feet like a rhinoceros. Perhaps this mythical creature can help Ah Keat solve the mystery. Afterall, legend says it can devour nightmares.

Hello! Tapir by young director Kethsvin Chee not only uniquely combines a live-action film and animation, but it subtly depicts a world of a boy grieving and his thirst for knowledge. It sensibly brings together comic and touching moments and conveys to the audience the creative mind of a child. It stands somewhere between family dramas of Hirokazu Koreeda and adventure trips of The Rapid Arrows. Hello! Tapir is surely the only picture of its kind able to captivate all generations.

Year: 2020
Local premiere date: 2. December 2021
World premiere date: 17. November 2020

Country of origin:

  • Taiwan