Taipei, Sept. 18 (CNA) The second Taiwan European Film Festival will be held from Sept. 21 to Oct. 8 and will be expanded to three cities, with 10 European films being screened, organizers announced Monday in Taipei.
The event will be the only film festival in Taiwan to show exclusively European films, said festival organizer Frederic Laplanche of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taipei, who added that it will "let Taiwanese people feel the united diversity in the European Union and the European life style."
Three of the films -- Soccer Day from Spain, Liberated Zone from Germany and In Orange from the Netherlands -- are "soccer films" that reflect the soccer fever throughout Europe.
"Soccer to Europe is like air to humans. We breathe and sleep with it, " Laplanche claimed.
The films will be screened in Taichung Universal Cinema City from Sept. 24- 28, in the Taipei Eslite Hsinyi from Sept. 28-Oct. 1, and in the Hsinchu Museum of Images from Oct. 4-8. Showings in Taichung and Hsinchu will be free of charge.
"I have found that Europeans and Taiwanese share the same passion for movies. And Europeans really like Taiwanese movies, especially those by directors Edward Yang, Ho Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, " according to Laplanche.
Since Taiwanese are more familiar with French films, organizers this year brought in films from countries such as Poland, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Sweden and Ireland so the audience can get a different feel, he added.