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Dir. by Chakme Rinpoche
2014. 94 mins. DCP. Color.

In Mandarin with English subtitles

Tianyu is a blind boy whose mother believes his only chance for a future is to become a champion disabled ping-pong player. Tianyu has other ideas – envisioning a much wider world than his mother understands. When he goes missing, she is forced to see things as he does in this beautiful, spiritually suffused debut feature from Tibetan writer-director Chakme Rinpoche.

Part of the series China Onscreen Biennial.