Buy tickets for Island of the Winds | BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Credits

Director

Hsu Ya-Ting
Taiwan-Japan-France 2025. 119min
Courtesy of

ARTicle Films
Languages

Mandarin, Japanese, Taiwanese

With English subtitles

Introduction

First conceived as a short film in the wake of a year she spent in the sanatorium, HSU continued visiting over two decades, nurturing a deep bond with its inhabitants. What emerges is an intimate portrait – not of leprosy as tragedy, but rather of lives lived in resolute defiance of systemic exclusion. Unadorned yet profoundly moving, Island of the Winds lays bare ableist structures, and honours its subjects’ ongoing fight for dignity and right to visibility.

Hyun Jin Cho

Content warning

Contains ableist attitudes and language.

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