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Island in Between (2023)

Sep 29, 2023 Documentary 0h 20m
User Score
63%
32 votes
Internet Movie Database
62%

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.

S. Leo Chiang
Director

Top Billed Cast

Sen-Po Tung
Sen-Po Tung

Self
Ja-Shin Wu
Ja-Shin Wu

Self
Ya-Ping Hu
Ya-Ping Hu

Self
Qiao-Ling Lin
Qiao-Ling Lin

Self
Ying-Lung Chiang
Ying-Lung Chiang

Self
Yue-Ling Lai
Yue-Ling Lai

Self
Wun-Siang Cheng
Wun-Siang Cheng

Self
Li-Hung Lin
Li-Hung Lin

Self
Alice Hérait
Alice Hérait

Self

Full Cast & Crew

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'Island in Between': In Taiwan, He Has a Front-Row Seat to a Geopolitical Dance | Op-Docs
'Island in Between': In Taiwan, He Has a Front-Row Seat to a Geopolitical Dance | Op-Docs
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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on March 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 issues of the delicate Sino-Taiwan relationship, and of the role of the USA in guaranteeing the integrity of the island - that, or interfering in it's future, depending on your perspective. At just twe...

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