SALLI

By Chien Hung LIEN

ARTHOOD ENTERTAINMENT GMBH - as SALES Other

Family - Completed 2023

An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone saying it is a romance scam, she wants to prove that her love indeed exists.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan International Film Festival 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Family, Drama, Comedy
    • Countries
    • TAIWAN, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN, TAIWANESE, ENGLISH, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Chien Hung LIEN
    • Writer(s)
    • Chien-Hung LIEN, Essay LIU
    • Producer(s)
    • Amanda MANYIN REINERT (ENLA MEDIA), Uilin ONGSIS (THE GRADUATE CO., LTD.), Dennis WU (Bole Film Co., Ltd.), Lieh LEE (An Attitude Production Co., Ltd.)
    • Synopsis
    • The online romance of Hui-Jun with a foreigner ignites gossip in the peaceful rural town where she lives. Hui-Jun is a 38-year-old Taiwanese chicken farmer, living with her brother and teenage niece Xin-Ru. She has been single for a long time and is not very good at interacting with other people. One day, Xin-Ru downloads an online dating app on Hui-Jun’s mobile phone.

      Unexpectedly, Hui-Jun, who doesn’t speak English, develops a romantic relationship through the app with a French man “Martin”. In the online world, she is “Salli”. The villagers laugh at Hui-Jun and tell her that it is a romance scam, but Hui-Jun refuses to believe them. She believes it is true love. But all of a sudden, Martin disappears.

      To prove Martin’s existence, Hui-Jun, who has never been abroad, decides to leave for Paris to find him..