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Dr. Ma's Country Clinic
Cong Feng | 2007 | 215 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Gansu Province is an arid, mountainous region. In Huangyangchuan Town, Ma Bingcheng is a respected local doctor. Patients, most of them farmers, come every day to his small clinic. They chat and gossip while they wait. In the springtime, workers see the doctor before they leave as migrant workers. Some women discuss a man that ...
My Village in 2006 (Zhang Huancai)
Zhang Huancai  | 2007 | 90 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Zhang culled this film from over one hundred hours of footage. We see the ups and downs, habits and rituals of his village. Zhang shares with us moments from his personal life as well. He bickers, teases, fights with his wife about the future.   Director’s Statement:
Chickens always find their w...
The Blind Singers of Taihang
Tian Miao | 2006 | 100 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The Blind Singers of Taihang follows the last blind entertainment troupe in Shanxi Province. Founded in the 1930s, the Blind Men Propaganda Team of Zuoquan County has been servicing remote villages close to the Taihang Mountains. Despite adverse weather and tough geographic locations, not to mention their own handicap, the...
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