Film
Island of the Winds
2025 · Documentary
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Overview
On the outskirts of Taipei, there is a leprosy sanatorium built by the Japanese occupiers in 1930 to seclude thousands of patients and maintain sanitary conditions on the land. For the last two decades, Taiwanese authorities have decided to turn the sanatorium into a museum to commemorate the history of leprosy medicine. However, the sanatorium has slowly been destroyed due to constant construction that has overwhelmed the remaining aged patients. To cope with this struggle, they protest and build landscape models with their gnarled hands representing their accurate memories and experiences. They continue to fight against the authorities’ efforts to erase the history of segregation and discrimination and have not given up.
Crew
- Hsu Ya-tingDirector · Producer
- Huang Yin-yuProducer
- Wang Yu-junOriginal Music Composer
- Takeshi HataEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- December 5, 2025
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Chinese
- Genres
- Documentary
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