The Blind Storytellers

The Blind Storytellers

BAI Zhiqiang • 2014

Duration: 01:23:22
Language: Northern Shaanxi Dialect
Subtitles: Chinese and English subtitles
Country/Region: China

Li Shouwang is the leader of a blind storytellers team, learned storytelling at the age of 19. His childernare living hard in other cities. Li's money amost goes to his children's pocket every year. But with urbanisation, the storytellers have lost almost all their audience. As the conflict between the storytelling team and the village team intensified, his son, who was far away from home, became the only spiritual sustains... When he was excited that his son would be taking his family home for Chinese New Year, what's await is a sigh.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

2014 Silk Road International Film Festival, China