Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
### **ABOUT THE FILM:** *In Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles.* Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager (Chen Chang, in his first role) from innocence to juvenile delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll and political turmoil. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Taiwan