Black Blood
5.6
Not everything is progress in China. Less and less rain means that the inhabitants of Inner Mongolia have to do everything to survive. For instance, sell their own blood. And in order to sell enough blood, you have to drink. A drama of fate shot in impressively expressive black-and-white. In a remote mountain village in the northwest of China, close to a nuclear test zone, the poverty-stricken Xiaolin sells his blood to pay his daughter’s school fees. Together with his wife Xiaojuan, he tries to set up a business. At first that seems very lucrative, but then fate strikes: it turns out that both Xiaolin and Xiaojuan are infected with HIV.
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Zhang Miaoyan Director
First release January 31, 2011 · Produced in China
Production
Arizona Films
Production · Distribution
China
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Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
Netherlands · January 31, 2011
International Film Festival Rotterdam
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France
November 23, 2011 · Theatrical
Greece
November 10, 2011 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Poland
July 22, 2012 · New Horizons Film Festival
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