THE EXILES
A washed-up hustler from Florida flees to Taiwan to escape his debts and start fresh, but his reckless ambition draws him into a petty rivalry among expat English teachers running a small-time weed operation, where greed and ego spiral toward a murder that shocks the island. Inspired by true events.
From auteur filmmaker Midi Z, director of Venice winner The Road to Mandalay, Cannes selection Nina Wu and Berlinale selection Ice Poison, comes a modern reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; a haunting study of how the illusion of the American Dream endures across borders, and the devastation left when it finally shatters.
A washed-up hustler from Florida flees to Taiwan to escape his debts and start fresh, but his reckless ambition draws him into a petty rivalry among expat English teachers running a small-time weed operation, where greed and ego spiral toward a murder that shocks the island. Inspired by true events.
From auteur filmmaker Midi Z, director of Venice winner The Road to Mandalay, Cannes selection Nina Wu and Berlinale selection Ice Poison, comes a modern reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness; a haunting study of how the illusion of the American Dream endures across borders, and the devastation left when it finally shatters.
