2021年《澳洲台灣影展》& 「LIVE線上開幕辦桌」

今年澳洲台灣影展將於9月16至30日線上舉行，並規劃「LIVE開幕辦桌」，用直播節目和影迷互動。今年片單包含13部長片及8部別出心裁的短片作品。開幕片為金馬11項提名的《消失的情人節》，另有邱澤、許瑋甯主演的票房口碑《當男人戀愛時》，和改編自真實校園暴力事件的《無聲》、以及台、奧、法、比合製的坎城三項入選作品《尋找》。今年的焦點影人為「台灣最會賣笑的導演」陳玉勳，5部經典作品給影迷一同回味勳式溫馨喜劇。

While the world is feeling wretched from the pandemic, Taiwanese movies are crowded with stories which demonstrates the island’s abundant cultural capacity. The films such as Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast and Man in Love represent Taiwan’s unique food culture through brilliant visual images. Hence the theme of this year’s festival, "Flavours", is to connect the sense of visual and taste, together offering the overseas audiences to sample the beauty of Taiwan.

“Due to the pandemic, the festival had to be postponed and cinema screenings cancelled. Instead, we will have online events such as Live Opening Night Banquet!, for movie fans to interact in virtual engagements of the festival. We want to bring the communities together even in lockdown” said Benson Wu, Festival Director.

Streaming on-demand from the 16 to 30 September, the festival program comprises of 13 feature films and 8 ingenious short films: included on the opening night film is the award-winning romantic comedy My Missing Valentine; The Silent Forest a daunting thriller adapted from real life story of the school violence, and Moneyboys a film with the collaboration of Taiwan, Austria, France and Belgium and received 3 nominations in Cannes Film Festival.