Movies from Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam will be shown at the film festival

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/08/22
By: Jessica Adriana, Taiwan News

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Kaohsiung Municipal Social Education Center will hold the “2018 Southeast Asia Film Festival” (2018遠近之間-東南亞影展) every weekend from Aug. 26 to Sept. 15.

There are four movies from New Southbound Policy countries that are going to be played at Kaohsiung Municipal Social Education Hall, including films from Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam.

The first movie that will be featured is the Thai heist thriller film called “Bad Genius” (模犯生). It tells the story about a genius high school student called Lynn who helps students to cheat on exams. The movie broke records for being the highest grossing Thai film in Taiwan last year, and grossed NT$1 billion dollars (US$32,576,000) at Taiwan’s box office.

“Bad Genius” will screened on Aug. 26 at 2:30 pm. Online registration is open until Aug. 24 at noon and is limited to 1,300 viewers.  [FULL  STORY]