The Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh (Taiwan FFE) has returned for a third year with an expanded program that will see it screen around 20 Taiwanese films at locations across Scotland from late March through November, according to organizers.
This year’s festival will present a film lineup under the theme of “The (Un)usual,” as interpreted through the avant-garde, the fantastical and the political, festival curator Liu Kuan-ping (???) said in a press release issued by the Taipei Representative Office in the U.K.
According to the representative office, the festival officially kicked off on March 25 with the start of a two-week tour of the Scottish Highlands and Orkney, where screenings of the animated short film “Girl in Water” will be held in an 80-seat mobile cinema.
On April 1-2, the Taiwan FFE will join the Hong Kong Film Festival U.K. at Summerhall in Edinburgh, to present a program focusing on the impact of Taiwan and Hong Kong social movements, the representative office said.
The event will include screenings of “Revolution in Our Times,” the acclaimed documentary on Hong Kong’s 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests, as well as the Taiwanese film “The Price of Democracy,” the office said.
On April 9, the festival will hold a screening of “Among Us,” a 2021 documentary that follows four Taiwanese art students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in collaboration with the charity Scottish Autism.
Meanwhile, the festival will be at the Scottish Poetry Library on May 19 for a showing of “Le Moulin,” a 2015 documentary about Taiwan’s first avant-garde literary group in the 1930s, the representative office said.
The office added that in June and July the festival will hold a series of outdoor screenings of animated children’s films, including a newly-restored version of the 1998 film “Grandma and Her Ghosts.”
The last portion of the festival, meanwhile, will consist of a week-long screening schedule at major Edinburgh cinemas in October, as well as in Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen, and Fort William in November, according to the representative office.
The complete film lineup for the October-November events will be announced later this year.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel