Islands, a Taiwan / UK moving image festival, will take place in August via newsletter. Every week a programme of films and letters will be emailed straight to audiences in the UK and Taiwan. Subscribe to the festival on the homepage.

Taiwan and the United Kingdom are island nations. Despite a 7-hour time difference, despite a distance of 6,069 miles, and despite the English Channel, the Taiwan Strait and all the intervening seas and oceans, both nations share a certain sensibility. Their identities are formed by their ‘islandness’, whether that be through their peripherality, or maritime culture, or their contentious relations with continental neighbours. During these strange times of isolation, our own sense of island-living has come to the fore; so too has our need to communicate. Through this programme we invite you, therefore, to embark on journeys to the islands of others and to share in an exchange with people and cultures next door and on the far side of the world.