"You will definitely find yourself in one of the characters in Winds of September"- Eric Tsang Chi-wai

Winds of September, the violent and dry northeastern current that sweeps through Taiwan in late autumn, brings not only dust and turbulence to Hsinchu, a northwestern city of Taiwan, but also the stories of seven youngsters whose uncertain and disturbance youthful years are spent in search of truth and understanding.

The film is set in Hsinchu in the year of 1996, during which baseball was prevailing in Asia. These seven closely bonded high school friends, who pursue brotherhood rather than knowledge, arbitrarily muddle through their school times. However, as time goes on, small conflicts built up in their everyday interactions which deepen the youngsters' misunderstanding in one another. Meanwhile, as the news of Chinese Professional Baseball League cheating spread across, the boys lost faith and trust in their idols, as well as in their bonded friends. When they realize that brotherhood can be broken so easily, they feel as if their beliefs have been flipped over. This confusion, disbelief, and treachery continue to stumble in these teenagers until their adolescence quietly flies away.

It does not matter whether you lived in the time of the prevalence of baseball as the leading characters in the film did, nor does it matter whether you grew up in the same place as they do, these teenagers' boiling blood for idols, sentimental minds for puppy love, and ongoing confusion about adulthood are the same, and could have been part of your adolescent life!

Genre: Drama
Length: 107 min
Director: Tom Shu-Yu Lin
Cast: Chieh Chang, Rhydian Vaughan, Jennifer Chu, Wei-Nian, Sheng, Chi-Tai Lin, Yue-Cheng Lee, Bo-Chieh Wang, Pei-Hui Chi, Yi-Cheng Chiu

Awards and Honors

10th Taipei Film Festival Taipei Grand Awards
- Jury Special Award
- Best New Talent
- Best Screenplay
- Media Choice Award
The 11th Shanghai International Film Festival
Asian New Talent Award - Best Film
45th Annual Golden Horse Award - Best Original Screenplay

About the Director

Tom Shu-Yu Lin graduated from the California Institute of Arts with a Master of Fine Arts degree, and is one of Taiwan's young, emerging directors. As he grew up in both Taiwan and the United States, his work presents perspectives from both the Chinese and Western culture, and blends qualities from traditional Western drama and Taiwanese films. Lin is great at telling stories with dramatic tension and discussing the fundamental questions of humanity. His short films The Olfactory System and The Pain of Others won him several awards. Winds of September is his first feature film.