By Nancy T. Lu

Cheng Yu-chieh’s Yang Yang and Germany 09 by 13 top German directors will open the 11th Taipei Film Festival on June 26. The closing films on July 12 will be Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow and Chang Tso-chi’s How Are You, Dad?

Tickets to screenings at the Shin Kong Cineplex and the Taipei Zhongshan Hall have gone on sale since May 23.

Leading at the box office so far are: Stephan Komandarev’s The World Is Big and Salvation is Around the Corner, Caroline Link’s Beyond Silence, Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow, Germany 09 (which brings together 13 most acclaimed directors of Germany), Sebastian Silva’s The Maid, Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of the Redux, Cheng Yu-chieh’s Yang Yang, Atom Egoyan’s Adoration, Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s All Around Us, and Emilio Portes’ Meet the Head of Juan Pérez.

The film festival will highlight German films and German directors under the “City Vision,” “Vintage Berlin” and “Modern Germany” sections. The “Voices from Latin America” will feature works by directors from Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru.

The competition section will be devoted to the search for new talent as well as winner of the Taipei Award.