Festival 2021
Handscape
China, 2019
Short Form
Directed by
Yi-Ru Chen
Yi-Ru Chen
Running time
19 min mins
19 min mins
Xia Qing has a hearing impairment and a deep love of dancing. When a rare opportunity arises to join a dance company, he seeks his mother’s approval by using the silent language of his fingertips.
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Director Bio
Yi-Ru Chen is a film director, artist, and poet who is an advocate for the education and art of sign languages, and an active member of the deaf communities in Shanghai and New York. She graduated from NYU Tisch of School of the Arts with a major in Film and Television Production.
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