Heirloom

(Zhaibian)
Leste Chen / Taiwan, 2005
Mandarin / English subtitles, 99 min

James is engaged to Yo and together, they move into the house of James' uncle who mysteriously disappeared twenty years earlier, together with his entire family and all who were present in the house at the moment. The couple invites their friends Yi-Chen and Ah-Tseng. Strange things start happening in the house and old wounds begin to open. Evil is not absent in the house. It resides on the 4th floor. The renaissance of Asian horror has arrived in Taiwan. The film has been purchased for distribution not only in the entire Asia, but also in the country of our Polish neighbors. One of last year's commercially most successful Taiwanese films.

Leste Chen (1981)
A member of the youngest generation of Taiwanese directors. Still, his films draw international attention. Unlike his "teachers", Leste Chen film stay far from personal social criticism. On this subject, he comments: "we are a generation excited whenever there is anything new in the movie theaters. We want our films to have the exact same effect on the audience." Leste Chen started as a director of music videos and his sense of music and rhythm strongly shows in his films as well.