CLOSING TIME

By Nicole VÖGELE

TASKOVSKI FILMS - as SALES All rights

Documentary - Completed 2018

Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway… «Closing Time» is a cinematographic meditation on in-between moments – a kaleidoscopic journey relying on colors, sensations and the materials of life. An attempt at capturing time, an exercise in just seeing.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2018
Silberner Leopard
Locarno Film Festival 2018
Festival Scope
IDFA 2018
Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón 2018
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Vision
Goteborg Film Festival 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, LIECHTENSTEIN
    • Languages
    • CHINESE
    • Duration
    • 116 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nicole VÖGELE
    • Producer(s)
    • Aline SCHMID (Beauvoir Films)
    • Synopsis
    • 3 am, Zhongzheng Road, Taipei. The traffic of a 24/7-society pulses through the metropolis in constant waves. Bordered by a multi-lane street with a big freeway towering above it, lies the night eatery «little plates with rice». Here Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work at night and sleep through the days - trying to keep afloat. Their eatery is a pit stop, a place of refuge, a warm bowl of rice. For the taxi drivers, the shop owners, for the tattoo artist next door. For families and young lovers. For the street dog awaiting his owner’s return. One morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway and journeys to the sea... «Closing time» is a cinematographic meditation on the in-between moments – a kaleidoscopic journey that relies on colours, sensations, animals, typhoons and a dark lilac sky – the materials of life. An attempt at capturing time, an exercise in seeing.