Entering into its seventh year, the Taiwanese Film Festival (TWFF) in Vancouver is back again this summer. The festival—which runs Friday to Sunday (June 14 to June 16) at the Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street) is presented by student group UBC Literature Etc. and sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver — aims to raise awareness of and access to Taiwanese cinema.

The festival presents its 2013 theme “Home” with six selections that showcase a range of relationships to the idea of home. TWFF seeks to show people’s definitions of home can lie within the borders of a cherished memory of long lost family such as that shown in the film Love is Sin, or may even be as large as the sense of belonging to an entire culture as portrayed in Kehidupan Happy Debbie. The festival will open with Go Grandriders, a documentary about a group of young-at-heart octogenarians who embark on a two-week motorcycle tour around Taiwan.

The 6 films will be shown in Chinese with English subtitles:

Go Grandriders:
Defying society's expectations, a group of senior citizens embark on a 13-day motorcycle tour around the island of Taiwan. By professional medical opinion, two-thirds of the group is not even qualified to go on the trip. They delivered a message of hope to the hearts of everyone they met throughout their 1178 kilometer journey.

My Dear Stilt:
Min is a man who has it all: great looks, a loving wife, and a job he is passionate about at the Taipei Wild Bird Conservatory. However, there is growing tension between him and his loved ones, and a crisis brings him back to his old home Yun-Ling revealing the past he left behind.

Kehidupan Happy Debbie:
Debbie is a resident foreigner in Taiwan who grew up on a coffee farm in Indonesia, but a crisis led her to leave her home country and her first love. As her husband was a useless drunkard and her son was often bullied for his distinct facial features, life was difficult for Debbie but she manages with coffee to console her soul until one day a mysterious Indonesian man shows up at her doors.

Love is Sin:
Aunt A-Mian, who runs the convenience store sitting beside the elementary school, attentively takes care of every hungry child, and facilitates the town's folks' lives. A-Mian has lived like this every day until a foreign reverend arrived one day, revealing the secret hidden behind A-Mian's smile.

Together:
Seventeen-year-old Hsiao Yang has many problems: his parents have each found themselves new partners, his sister is hopelessly head over heels for an indifferent playboy, and his best friend, Chih-Hao, is stuck in a complicated situation between an ex-girlfriend and a girl who works at the local breakfast café. And the only thing Hsiao Yang possesses to remedy all of these problems is a cheesy love letter.

To My Dear Granny:
The story began with a letter, revealing layers of past memories and secrets between family members. In a family without its father, a mother who buried her dreams because of reality, and a grandma under the attack of con artists, A-Da faces a huge predicament...

For screening,ticketing information and trailers, please go to http://www.twff.ca/indexE.html
Event: 2013 Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival
Date: Friday June 14th – Sunday June 16th, 2013
Location: Vancouver International Film Centre/ Vancity theatre
1181 Seymour St. (at Davie St.) Vancouver