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Island in Between (2023)

29/09/2023 (TW)Documentary20m
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A personal, poetic look at the uneasy peace on the frontline between Taiwan and China.

Overview

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with China.

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    1. Sen-Po Tung

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    2. Ja-Shin Wu

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    3. Ya-Ping Hu

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    4. Qiao-Ling Lin

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    5. Ying-Lung Chiang

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    6. Yue-Ling Lai

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    7. Wun-Siang Cheng

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    8. Li-Hung Lin

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    9. Alice Hérait

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Mar 22, 2024

    A man who has lived the last thirty years of his life in the USA returns to his ancestral home in Taiwan just as lockdown impacts and then as relations between the nation and China continue to strain. This is a pretty standard observational documentary - but it does offer quite an interesting degree of reverse psychology. It's the Taiwanese who are bombarding their near neighbour with messages about truth, freedom and democracy - and all from their tiny outpost of the Kinmen Islands, a very short ferry ride from the mainland. This really only serves as a cursory introduction to the important i...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageChinese

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    Keywords

    • taiwan