21 Nov
2024 TAIWAN EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL
2024 Taiwan European Film Festival
The European Film Festival enters its 20th edition this year.
TEFF European Film Festival (Taiwan European Film Festival) has been showing European films all over Taiwan since 2005 and providing free admission to the audience. It is hoped that the Taiwanese people will understand the culture and art of European countries through the process of appreciating European films. , and language diversity, the total number of movie viewers currently exceeds 186,000.
The 20th Taiwan European Film Festival in 2024 is co-organized by the European Economic and Trade Office and Daqi Integrated Marketing. 19 European countries are invited to individually select a film to participate in the exhibition. It will be held in various counties and cities across Taiwan, with venues covering art spaces, performance spaces, Screenings in theaters, etc. are open to students and the general public free of charge.
The screening period is from November 15, 2024 to January 31, 2025
Host organization：European Economic and Trade Office (EETO)
Chinese and English subtitles are available
Free entrance
Alliance Française de Taïwan – Taipei Center & Kaohsiung Center are both cooperating in screening:
Alliance Française de Taiwan – Centre de Taipei :
2F,N° 107, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City, 10673
Please only play five movies in the Taipei screening, and you need to register in advance.
Please go to the registration link: Taipei Center Registration Form
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Alliance Française de Taiwan – Centre de Kaohsiung:
3F, N° 2, Darong Street, Gushan District, Kaohsiung
For the Kaohsiung show, no prior registration is required. Please follow the screening schedule below to participate.
Note: For related trailers, please refer to the Kaohsiung show below
11/21 (Thu) 19:00 Austria -Broll - Fuer Immer Tot (Broll: Buried Alive)
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- Original title: BROLL – FUER IMMER TOT (Buried Alive)
Production Year: 2022
Directed By Harald Sicheritz
Right Holder: CinemaWorld
1 hour 28 mins - G : General Audiences
- Original title: BROLL – FUER IMMER TOT (Buried Alive)
Synopsis
Gravedigger Max Broll teams up with retired football star Baroni to search for Max's stepmother Tilda, the local police chief, who has been kidnapped and buried alive in the woods. Time is running out, and Tilda won't survive for more than 48 hours.
11/22 (Fri) 19:00 Belgium - Augure (Omen)
Original Title: Augure (Omen)
Production Year 2023
Directed By Baloji
Right Holder: European Union Repository
1 hour 32 mins
PG : Parental Guidance Suggested
Synopsis
After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
11/28 (Thu) 19:00 Denmark - Kysset (The Kiss)
Original Title : Kysset (The Kiss)
Production Year 2022
Directed By Bille August
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 54 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
The story follows Anton whose top priority is to complete his training as a cavalry officer. During training he orders his platoon to help Baron and he meets the Baron's daughter Edith who has been in an accident.
11/29(Fri) 19:00 Finland - Natatorium
Original Title : Natanorium
Production Year: 2024
Directed By Helena Stefansdottir
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 45 mins
PG-12 : Parents Strongly Cautioned
Synopsis
Visiting estranged grandparents, eighteen-year-old Lilja auditions in town. Feeling at home in their mansion, she becomes entangled with the family's dark past and learns life-threatening secrets.
12/5 (Thu) 19:00 France - Reprise en main (The Takeover)
Original Title: Reprise en main (The Takeover)
Production Year 2022
Directed By Gilles Perret
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 42 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
Cédric works in a company specialized in precision mechanics. Its management, run by an investment fund, is disastrous. As another fund is about to buy it again, Cédric decides to take the company over, giving it to the employees.
12/6 (Fri) 19:00 Germany - Rafiki
Original Title: Rafiki
Production Year: 2018
Directed By Wanuri Kahiu
Right Holder: European Union Repository
1 hour 23 mins
PG-12 : Parents Strongly Cautioned
Synopsis:
“Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
12/12 (Thu) 19:00 Hungary - Szelíd (Gentle)
Original Title: Szelíd (Gentle)
Production Year: 2022
Directed By László Csuja . Anna Nemes
Right Holder: European Union Repository
1 hour 32 mins
PG : Parental Guidance Suggested
Synopsis
Edina, a female bodybuilder is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Adam: to win the Miss Olympia. The odd love she finds on her way makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.
12/13 (Fri) 19:00 Italy - Margherita delle stelle (Margherita Hack - The Lady Of The Stars)
Original Title: Margherita delle stelle (Margherita Hack – The Lady Of The Stars)
Production Year: 2024
Directed By Giulio Base
Right Holder: CinemaWorld
1 hour 39 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
The film tells the extraordinary story of Margherita Hack, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, from her childhood to adulthood.
12/19 (Thu) 19:00 Lithuania - Begike (Runner)
Original Title: Begike (Runner)
Production Year: 2021
Directed By Andrius Blazevicius
Right Holder: European Union Repository
1 hour 27 mins
PG : Parental Guidance Suggested
Synopsis
After her boyfriend has a psychotic episode and disappears, Maria is decided to let nothing stop her from helping him. Grabbing at every clue about his whereabouts she embarks on a fast-paced odyssey through the city.
12/20 (Fri) 19:00 Luxembourg - Lost Transport
Original Title: Lost Transport
Production Year: 2022
Directed By Saskia Diesing
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 39 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone.
12/26 (Thu) 19:00 Netherlands - Nazavzhdy-Nazavzhdy (Forever-Forever)
Original Title: Nazavzhdy-Nazavzhd (Forever-Forevery)
Production Year: 2023
Directed By Anna Buryachkova
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 44 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
Set in Kyiv in the late 1990s, “Forever-Forever" is an unsettling portrait of the young and rebellious as they navigate love, explore their sexuality, and play cruel games, which never have a winner.
12/27 (Fri) 19:00 Poland - Dangerous Men
Original Title: Dangerous Men
Production Year: 2022
Directed By Maciej Kawalski
Right Holder: European Union Repository
1 hour 50 mins
PG : Parental Guidance Suggested
Synopsis
Joseph Conrad and three other notorious artists wake up after a crazy party with a dead man on their couch with no clue who he was, why he's dead, or why the gendarme is knocking at the door.
1/2 (Thu) 19:00 Spain - Sis dies corrents (The Odd-Job Men)
Original Title: Sis dies corrents (The Odd-Job Men)
Production Year: 2021
Directed By Neus Ballús
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 22 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
A peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience.
1/3 (Fri) 19:00 Sweden - Tisdagsklubben (Tuesday Club)
Original Title: Tisdagsklubben (Tuesday Club)
Production Year: 2022
Directed By Annika Appelin
Right Holder: CinemaWorld
1 hour 36 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
A sudden change forces Karin to re-evaluate her life. With the help of friends, food and passion she refuses to accept that life has an expiration date and takes the second chance she is given.
1/9 (Thu) 19:00 Switzerland - Platzspitzbaby (Needle Park Baby)
Original Title: Platzspitzbaby (Needle Park Baby)
Production Year: 2020
Directed By Pierre Monnard
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 35 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
Spring 1995 – after the closure of the Needle Park in Zurich, 11-Year- Old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside.
1/10 (Fri) 19:00 United Kingdom - The Princess
Original Title: The Princess
Production Year: 2022
Directed By Ed Perkins
Right Holder: Cinema World
1 hour 49 mins
G : General Audiences
Synopsis
Princess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.