Cinema East Film: 'The Boys from Fengkuei'

The final film of this year’s season of the Cinema East film series at Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay Street) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1983 feature The Boys from Fengkuei, which screens on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at 7:45 p.m., with a matinee screening at 11:00 a.m.  More information and tickets can be found online.  

According to the Pickford’s website, The Boys from Fengkuei is about friends from the small village of Fengkuei who: 

“…spend their days drinking, fighting, gambling and goofing off. When three of them head to the port city of Kaohsiung in search of urban adventure, they find themselves reckoning with the realities of work, love, and death in a world they’re not prepared to face.”  

The Cinema East film series is co-presented by Western Libraries and Pickford Film Center, with film selections curated by WWU librarian Jeff Purdue, who will also be introducing the film. For more information about the Cinema East series, please see the PFC website, or contact Jeff Purdue at: purduej@wwu.edu, (360) 650-7750.  

All PFC theaters are ADA accessible with wheelchair seating, and closed captioning and assistive listening devices are available at the box office. For questions about or to request disability accommodation, please contact Meghan Schilling:meghan@pickfordfilmcenter.org.