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Visually-impaired people enjoy barrier-free version of movies in Liaoning, NE China

2025-12-05 09:11:10Source: Xinhua

Visually-impaired people and volunteers wait to enjoy a movie at a cinema in Yingkou, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Dec. 1, 2025. Visually-impaired people enjoyed the barrier-free version of movie "Born to Fly" and movie "Island Keeper" respectively in Yingkou City and Shenyang City of Liaoning lately on the occasion of the 34th International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which fell on Wednesday this year. The movie screening activity was under the Cinema of Light, a public welfare initiative initiated in 2017 by the Communication University of China.

The initiative aims to produce duplicable and distributable films with voice descriptions inserted during pauses in dialogue and sound effects, providing explanations of the visual content, emotions and meanings behind the scenes. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

Visually-impaired people and volunteers enjoy movie "Island Keeper" at a cinema in Hunnan District of Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Dec. 3, 2025. Visually-impaired people enjoyed the barrier-free version of movie "Born to Fly" and movie "Island Keeper" respectively in Yingkou City and Shenyang City of Liaoning lately on the occasion of the 34th International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which fell on Wednesday this year. The movie screening activity was under the Cinema of Light, a public welfare initiative initiated in 2017 by the Communication University of China.

The initiative aims to produce duplicable and distributable films with voice descriptions inserted during pauses in dialogue and sound effects, providing explanations of the visual content, emotions and meanings behind the scenes. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

A volunteer (L) whispers with a visually-impaired person at a cinema in Hunnan District of Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Dec. 3, 2025. Visually-impaired people enjoyed the barrier-free version of movie "Born to Fly" and movie "Island Keeper" respectively in Yingkou City and Shenyang City of Liaoning lately on the occasion of the 34th International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which fell on Wednesday this year. The movie screening activity was under the Cinema of Light, a public welfare initiative initiated in 2017 by the Communication University of China.

The initiative aims to produce duplicable and distributable films with voice descriptions inserted during pauses in dialogue and sound effects, providing explanations of the visual content, emotions and meanings behind the scenes. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

Volunteers help visually-impaired people to find their seats at a cinema in Yingkou, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Dec. 1, 2025. Visually-impaired people enjoyed the barrier-free version of movie "Born to Fly" and movie "Island Keeper" respectively in Yingkou City and Shenyang City of Liaoning lately on the occasion of the 34th International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which fell on Wednesday this year. The movie screening activity was under the Cinema of Light, a public welfare initiative initiated in 2017 by the Communication University of China.

The initiative aims to produce duplicable and distributable films with voice descriptions inserted during pauses in dialogue and sound effects, providing explanations of the visual content, emotions and meanings behind the scenes. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

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