RECOMMENDED Lucy Walker’s uncomplicated verite doc “Blindsight” systematically follows six blind, untrained Tibetan teenagers, students at a school called Braille Without Borders, who climb a peak to one side of Mt. Everest. Walker’s got the grace to allow their complications to tell the story, rather than overreaching visually. “Reaching into the darkness” is what one subject describes it as, and their, dare we say, journey, is pretty thrilling to witness. A side note of Tibetan prejudice toward the blind, who are thought struck for sins in past lives, is provocative. What a world! 104m. (Ray Pride)
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