66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
Tributes, Retrospectives, Homages, Spotlights: Hou Hsiao Hsien

Taiwan 1996 116 35mm Color
The film follows the luckless entrepreneurial ventures of Kao and his misfit cohort Flat Head (played Taiwanese pop star Lim Giong). A non-stop schemer, Kao devises a plan to raise money by trading subsidized pigs to the government for cash.The ruse works, but when the temperamental Flat Head antagonizes the wrong people, the two find themselves caught up in a dangerous game of corrupt politics.