Pan Zhog

Chen Hsin-Wei • 2016

Pan Zhog means out door banquet in Hakka, it is the period mark for every death, wedding or celebration in town. Blurring the line of fiction and non-fiction, Pan Zhog is a sentimental short film about saying goodbye. Mori-so and Gim were neighbors, friends, and partners of Pan Zhog catering banquets for decades. One day Mori-so got a mid-night phone call about her best friend's death. The end of life suddenly approached so near. Mori-so decides to cater a supper for Gim and her families to say goodbye in the way Mori-so and Gim both familiar with.