Waiting for the Sun
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62% Critic Match

Waiting for the Sun

6.2 / 10 2017 1h 32mNR English
Documentary

Storyline

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living in the streets. Grandma Zhang, as the kids call her, is a former prison guard who has founded an orphanage in Nanzhao.

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Kaspar Astrup Schröder's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Waiting for the Sun is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker