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North American Premiere!

Ata  (China, 2014)


Tianyu is a sightless 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.

DCP, color, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 94 min.  DIR/SCR: Chakme Rinpoche.  EXEC PROD: Jiang Jiayan.  CAST: Wang Ning, Jiao Gang, Meng Tianyu.