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Country/Region: Mainland China

Release Year: 2025

Story:

Cutting Light to Shadow documents the Tengchong Liu Family Shadow Puppet Troupe: Elder artists adhere to tradition while the younger generation innovates in dissemination, presenting the conflict between the old and the new and the predicament of intangible cultural heritage inheritance.

Casts & Crews:

XIAO Runqi
Directors

XIAO Runqi
scriptwriter

XIAO Runqi
cinematographer

XIAO Runqi
editor

Runtime: 33 minutes

Language: Mandarin, Tengchong dialect

Subtitles: Chinese, English

Festivals & Awards:
2026 Ethnografilm Paris, France
2025 International Folklore Film Festival (IFFF), India
2024 Chinese Music Ethnographic Film Festival - Best Academic Exploration Award, China
2024 Sichuan Province College Students' Intangible Cultural Heritage Video Innovation Competition - First Prize (Best Documentary Award), China
2024 Film and Video Anthropology Branch of the Chinese Society of Ethnology - Outstanding Student Film, China
2024 Macau International Movie Festival, Macau
2024 Core Journal "Chinese Music", China

Tags: #Yunnan #ShadowPuppetry #IntangibleCulturalHeritage

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Director‘s Statement:
In Tengchong City, Yunnan Province, China，an ancient art from the Central Plains is passed down - shadow play. Two hundred years ago, the shadow play tradition came here, took root in this land, and developed its own outstanding characteristics. This film focuses on the scenes of Tengchong shadow play, not only showing how the old artists protect the traditional skills with their vicissitudes of life, but also keenly capturing the innovative attempts of the younger generation of inheritors. Light travels through shadows to become a play, which continues to thrive in the south of the colorful clouds... A lamp, a curtain, and a variety of human life.