Talented directors in China are displaying their ethnic heritage through movies and gaining international attention. Among them are films about the lives of Tibetan and Uighur people.

Five-Colored Arrow, directed by Tibetan filmmaker Wongmar Tstang, centers on the age-old arrow shooting contest in Qinghai province in northwest China. It received the award for best cinematography at the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival this year and was met with critical acclaim at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.

According to UNESCO, more than a third of cultural heritages in China are non-tangible. Ethnic culture is under constant erosion by modern culture, and films help preserve the languages of ethnic minorities. A film called The Home of Abundance about the lives of the Uighur people is one such example.

These movies invite the public to explore the unique heritage of the ethnic minorities and also remind the world of China's cultural diversity.

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