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202122 minPGdocumentary

6.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Everything Near Becomes Distant

202122 minPGdocumentary

6.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Xiaoxin confronts the emotional and psychological challenges of blindness after developing an eye disease.

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Xiaoxin confronts the emotional and psychological challenges of blindness after developing an eye disease.

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Yunyi Zhu

Yunyi Zhudirector

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Director Zhu's friend, Xiaoxin, contracted an eye disease. He gradually lost his eyesight, and by 2015, he had gone completely blind. He told Zhu that the total blackness scared him, and Zhu felt that he was on his way to somewhere.

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