Mongrel

New Directors Competition

Mongrel

Mongrel

Taiwan, Singapore, France 2024 Fiction cor 128 min.

Oom is an illegal worker in a rough province of Taiwan. He has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.

Presented in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a special mention from the Caméra d’Or award for best first film.

Taiwan Singapore France immigration social portrait work international film festivals awarded films

direction

Chiang Wei Liang

codireção

Yin You Qiao

screenplay

Chiang Wei Liang

cinematography

Michaël Capron

editing

Dounia Sichov

sound design

RT Kao, Lim Ting Li

production design

Liv Ye Chih-wei

cast

Wanlop Rungkumjad, Lu Yi-ching, Hong Yu-hung, Kuo Shu-wei, Atchara Suwan

production

Lai Weijie, Lynn Chen, Chu Yun-ting

co-production

Marie Dubas, Elizabeth Wijaya

produced by

E&W Films, Le Petit Jardin

co-produced by

Deuxième Ligne Films

world sales

Alpha Violet

contact

[email protected]

indicative rating

16