Gf*Bf

Yang Ya-Che : 2012
Girlfriend Boyfriend

In the 1980s, Taiwan is still under martial law and people are locked in the battle to have it lifted. A social revolution is set to take off. Kaohsiung high school students Mabel, Liam and Aaron are best friends and three sides of a love triangle. Spurned by Liam, Mabel has settled for Aaron, but in Taipei during the reform movement, Mabel catches Aaron with another girl. Later still, at a friend's autumn wedding, the three reunite and Liam and Mabel reconcile their complicated feelings, Liam finally urging Mabel to be happy with Aaron if he cannot. After becoming pregnant with Aaron's child, Mabel realises the tremendous barrier before her, and in summer 2012, Liam and Mabel raise Aaron's child together. Unfolding against the backdrop of Taiwan's democratic movement of the 1980s and 1990s, a powerful and moving coming-of-age story exploring the deep and complicated emotional turmoil of three tragic souls growing up during a period of immense social change. The film focuses on the intersection of friendship, love and the internal struggles of the three characters and their misguided emotions, over the course of twenty years. Yang Ya-Che's award-winning second feature premiered at Taipei Film Festival 2012 and screened at Busan International Film Festival 2012.