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Empty Skies

Wenting Deng Fisher
Luke Charles Fisher
United States, 2019, 19 min.

In Chinese with English subtitles.
This film is family friendly.

A boy and his new friend hunt their village's last sparrow for a reward to save his sick Grandma during Communist China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961).

Category: Drama.
Themes: World Cinema, Youth, Culture.

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