title: Parking (2008 film)
text: # Parking (2008 film)
  
  Parking (Chinese: 停車; pinyin: Tíngchē) is a 2008 Taiwanese movie.
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) makes a dinner date with his wife (Gwei Lun-mei), hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While he is buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches for the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Chang Chen as Chen Mo
  * Gwei Lun-mei as Chen Mo's Wife
  * Leon Dai as Pimp
  * Chapman To as Tailor
  * Jack Kao as Barber
  * Peggy Tseng as Hooker
  * Tou Chung-hua as Gang Leader
  * Lai-Yin Yang
  * Lin Kai-jung as Barber's Granddaughter
  * Holger Chen as Gang Member
  
  ## Festivals
  
  * Cannes Film Festival 2008 – Un Certain Regard
  * Montreal World Film Festival 2008
  * Bangkok International Film Festival 2008
  * Vancouver International Film Festival 2008
  * Pusan International Film Festival 2008
  * Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2008
  * Stockholm International Film Festival 2008
  * Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008
  * Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008 – Opening Film
  * !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival 2009
  * Spokane International Film Festival 2009
  * 2009 Adelaide Film Festival
  * Osaka Asian Film Festival 2009
  * Bradford International Film Festival 2009
  * Taiwan London Cinefest 2009
  * Barcelona Asian Film Festival
  * Silk Screen Film Festival 2009
  * Wisconsin Film Festival 2011
  
  ## Award
  
  * Golden Horse Award, Best Art Direction – FIPRESCI Critics Award: Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008
  * Best New Talent - Audience Favourite Film: Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2008
  