The festival launched with an event titled "Classicals of 50 Years--Retrospective of Taiwanese Dialect Films," celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film Hsueh Ping-kuei and Wang Pao-chuan, the first Taiwanese-made, Taiwanese-language film, directed by Ho Chi-ming.
影視博覽會以「台語電影 50 週年」揭開序幕，今年距離 1956 年由何基明執導的第一部 35 厘米、台灣人自製的台語劇情片《薛平貴與王寶釧》，正好 50 年。