Country/Region: China

Release Year: 2014 

Story:
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.  

Cast

Runtime : 85 minutes

Subtitles : Chinese and English subtitles

Douban : https://movie.douban.com/subject/25868115/

Festivals&Awards :
Silk Road International Film Festival-Best Documentary, 2014, China
http://www.cnsriff.com
Nanjing Independent Film Festival, 2014, China
http://www.chinaiff.org
International "Golden Panda" Documentary Festival, 2014, China
http://www.docuchina.cn/2016/09/12/ARTIoH8IbN4pm1wSfZjHtTiB160912.shtml
Chinese Academy Awards, 2014, China
http://www.chinaawards.net
Chinese Documentary International Selection - Second Price for Social category, 2014, China
http://jishi.cntv.cn/20111129/100248.shtml

Tags : Documentary, Shaanxi, Blind group, Rural area, Folk artisan