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Hong Kong New Wave director Patrick Tam finally returns with his new film After This Our Exile starring Aaron Kwok and Charlie Young. The film topped all other competitors at the Golden Horse Film Festival to win the Best Feature Film award. Following up his win with Divergence last year, Aaron Kwok was crowned the Best Leading Actor for the second consecutive year for his role in this film. Nine-year-old Ian Iskandar Gouw, who plays Aaron Kwok's son in the film, won the Best Supporting Actor award, becoming the youngest Golden Horse winner ever.

Aaron Kwok plays gambler Sheng, while Charlie Young portrays his wife who can no longer tolerate his violence and leaves the family. Sheng then forces his son (Ian Iskandar Gouw) to commit petty theft to simply survive. The child ends up in a juvenile detention center and does not meet his father again until 10 years later, when his innocent emotional attachment to his father has already been replaced by a more complex feeling mixing affection, disappointment, and despair. Director Patrick Tam aptly captures the nuances in a changing family in which the father tragically does not know that his shortcomings will eventually destroy the family. The carefully designed cinematography and classical music give the film a strong artistic flavor, probably explaining the film's popularity at international film festivals.

Tam first made his name with his daring 1982 work Nomad (starring Leslie Cheung, Cecili

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