Yi Yi

Selected by the Directors Branch. 
 
Writer-director Edward Yang’s nearly three-hour comedy-drama earned the filmmaker the Best Director Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Focusing on three generations of one family during a hot Taipei summer, Yi-Yi tells an intimate yet expansive story that finds room to explore a variety of characters, from the father who questions his life after encountering a lost love to the young boy who chooses to photograph the backs of people’s heads. The final feature from the master filmmaker, it is widely considered one of the great films of the new century.