Island of the Winds (Spotlight Taiwan)

<div><b>Screening as part of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/spotlight-taiwan-film-festival">Spotlight Taiwan 2026</a>.</b></div><div><br></div><div>On the outskirts of Taipei, a community of leprosy survivors has endured life-long quarantine since Japanese colonial rule in 1930. For decades, their voices were silenced, their existence made invisible. Yet, over the last twenty years, they awakened to fight for their land—the final sanctuary of their dignity. While Taiwanese authorities sold the sanatorium grounds to the Taipei Metro and later planned a memorial museum to institutionalize their story, the residents chose resistance.</div><div><br></div><div>Led by the Losheng Self-Help Group, and anchored by the resolute spirits of elders like Uncle Wen and Aunt Ying, they forged one of Taiwan’s most influential grassroots democratic movements. Now, as the remaining patients grow frail, the looming construction and aggressive state oppression threaten to demolish their homes, lives, and memories. They refuse to yield to a system attempting to sanitize a history of segregation and discrimination. Filmed over two decades, this documentary witnesses what remains of their struggle: love, defiance, and ultimately, death. As they bear the weight of disease and aging, these survivors fight their final, most brutal battle—the battle against oblivion.</div>DocumentaryPT2HN/C 182026-07-11
Hsu Ya-ting
Huang Yin-yu
Hsu Ya-ting
Island of the Winds (Spotlight Taiwan)"Island of the Winds (Spotlight Taiwan)"

Showtimes

July 11, 8:15 pm

Filmhouse Cinema