Listen Before You Sing 聽見歌再唱
TAIWAN｜2021｜FEATURE | 113 mins
Writer / Director: Chih Lin Yang
Producer: Wolf Chen & Feng Mei Chang
Starring: Umin Boya as “Bukut”、Ella Chen as “Yun Fen Huang”
Production Company: Neverland Entertainment Limited
Genres: Kids and Family, Indigenous Aboriginal, Vocal Music
SYNOPSIS
An elementary school located on the deep mountain is facing a crisis of being abolished due to population migration. The gym teacher “Bukut” is assigned to form a choir, and to win the national choir contest to solve such a crisis.
With limited resources and no music background, teacher Bukut and a group of tone-deaf Bunun students, and the other lovely music teacher “Yun Fen Huang” started to prepare for the contest. On the contest day, the students hear other choir singing, but they refuse to get onto the stage because they believe their voice is different and, therefore is wrong...
Both teachers have to lure the students to finish the contest. Sadly, they do not win, but they still get big applause from the audience. For the students from a small school, the applause from thousands of audience creates a huge impact on them, which gets the teachers to think: What’s wrong with being different?
Maybe that is the core of the choir and the antidote to change people’s thoughts about them!
深山裡的部落小學，一名不懂五線譜的體育老師方雅各，被校長指派擔任合唱團的指揮，期望他們在三個月後的合唱比賽上得到優異名次，才有機會解決被廢校的危機。倉促成軍的合唱團，當孩子們在比賽會場看到別的合唱團的表現時，信心崩潰不敢上台，他們因為自己的聲音跟別人不一樣，直接認定別人是對的自己是錯的。
身為指揮的方雅各，半哄半騙地帶著孩子們上台演出，雖然成績不理想，但表演結束後的掌聲卻深深的震撼他們。對於一個來自學生只有五十人的小學校，感受到一千多人的掌聲鼓勵，衝擊非常強烈，而方雅各也第一次體會到，孩子們會因為得到了掌聲，燃起了新的力量去面對挫折，他開始用體育專長發明練唱方式，重新用歌聲感動整個部落。
Acquisition & FESTIVAL CONTACT
Sin Wang
