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Island in Between

Island in Between

6,3 /10 (36 Votes)
2023 ZH 20 min

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.

Release date

29/09/2023

Votes

36

Popularity

0.2

A personal, poetic look at the uneasy peace on the frontline between Taiwan and China.

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

金門

Language

ZH

Runtime

20 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-03-22

⭐ 6

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…

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