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Film Descriptions:
Follow Your Heart: China’s New Youth Movement In highlighting China’s national hiphop movement this film illustrates how a generation of Chinese youth embraces technology, art, and consumer culture to express individuality in ways that clash with both traditional and modern Chinese values. Distributed by: Third World Newsreel
Making Mao This film examines the creation of the Mao-centered iconography that permeated the visual, performing, and popular arts as China struggled thru its metamorphosis into a modern nation.
SUBVERSES China In Mozambique Many Chinese are investing and living in Africa. SUBVERSES gives insight to China’s presence in Mozambique through the voices of slam poets, construction workers and Distributed by: Sixpack Film
The Water Cries The Water Cries is a series of sixteen programs surveying water-related concerns, such as over-consumption, shortages, pollution, desertification, and drought in China. We’ll be presenting the opening episode of the series. Distributed by: Asia Pacific Films
Beijing Besieged By Waste Photographer Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, fearlessly documenting Beijing’s unholy cycle of consumption through poignant observational visits with the scavengers who live and work in the dumps. Distributed by: dGenerate Films
Alms Alms explores the basics of Chan Buddhist monastic life through the eyes of the head chef of a monastery in Southern China. Witness how this community functions as a self-sufficient microsociety in which every element of daily life is an expression of this distinctive Buddhist school. Distributed by Commonfolk Films
Google China Standoff The Chinese government blocks and censors information that it deems detrimental in the name of “Chinese national interest.” Google China Standoff calls attention to the restricted nature of cyberspace and the visibility of the state in regulating, virtually, national borders. Distributed by: VPRO Sales
When China Met Africa This film examines China’s expanding footprint in Africa through the stories of three people in Zambia: a Chinese farmer, a Chinese multinational’s road project manager and Zambia’s trade minister. Distributed by: Bullfrog Films
Diary of an Ethnologist in China Ethnologist Patrice Fava’s filmmaking centers around surviving Chinese traditions, mainly of Taoist origin. His recently reissued 1988 documentary, which won the Nanook award at the Bilan du Film ethnographique in Paris (1989), offers viewers a look back to these Chinese traditions as practiced in the late 1980’s. Distributed by: CNRS Images
Mumbai: Traffic Mumbai is growing so fast that the infrastructure is collapsing and could put an end to economic growth. Public trains are filled to the bursting point, and traffic is nearing a complete gridlock. An eight lane highway is being built out to the sea to ease matters. Part of the Cities On Speed Series produced by Danish Radio. Distributed by: Filmakers Library
The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film This collection of short, character-driven documentaries made by Afghans show daily realities of contemporary Afghanistan, and reveal Afghan culture through intimate conversations at home and workplaces. Knocking on Time’s Door (6 min), Bearing the Weight (13 min) and Water Ways (11 min) are selected to screen at AAS. Distributed by: Community Supported Film
Dancing With The Goddess: Ras-Garba Traditions of Gujarat This ethnographic film focuses on ritual dances related to goddess worship in Gujarat, India. It covers a variety of regional performances associated with the Navaratri festival. Please direct film inquiries to: pshah@duke.edu
Woman Rebels Over the course of a ten year revolution in Nepal, forty percent of the guerilla army fighting against the government were women. Woman Rebels follows the story of one such woman -- codename ‘Silu’-- on her journey from the jungles to Parliment. Distributed by: New Day Films
Bön: Mustang to Menri This film is about a boy’s journey from Mustang to Menri and how now as an educated Geshe, he will give back to his village. Interwoven with ancient Bön and life at Menri Monastery, it shows Bön’s unique place in Tibetan history, and how and why the work monks, lamas, and Geshes do is important. Please direct film inquires to: andreaheckman@earthlink.net
Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir! Indian society calls them “born criminals.” They call themselves “born actors.” And through street theater, they are fighting back -- against police brutality, discrimination and history. This film follows the lives of young Chhara actors and their families as they take their struggle to the streets, hoping their plays will spark a revolution. Distributed by: Four Nine and a Half Pictures
Is This The Mahabharata? One part of a 26 episode 2D animation depicting South Indian epic folk stories reminiscent of the Bhavagad Gita... and much more. Is this a folk Mahabharata? You decide. Distributed by: Ponnivala Productions
I AM After eleven years, an Indian lesbian filmmaker chronicles the journey home to finally confront the loss of her mother whom she never came out to. By meeting parents of other gay and lesbian Indians, she pieces together the fabric of what family truly means, in a landscape where being gay was, until recently, a criminal and punishable offense. Distributed by filmmaker.
Resilience This award-winning documentary takes a look at a side of adoption rarely told - what happens after the reunion. Resilience follows a Korean birth mother and her American son as they reunite and attempt to build a relationship after 30 years apart. Distributed by: 7th Art Releasing
In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee After 40 years, filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem, a Korean adoptee who came to the US in 1966 as Cha Jung Hee, returns to her native Korea to find her “double,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. This moving and provocative film probes the ethics of international adoptions and reveals the cost of living a lie. Distributed by: New Day Films
Die For Japan While American World War II propaganda often focused on killing the enemy, Japanese propaganda focused more on dying for the nation. This film exams Japanese World War II propaganda as depicted in kamishibai—Japanese paper plays, a form of street entertainment popular in Japan at the time. Please direct film inquiries to: dym@csus.edu
Mizuzawa in Japan’s History Completed shortly before disaster hit Northeastern Japan on 11 March 2011, this film is built around a conversation between noted Japan scholars -- anthropologist Keith Brown and historian Ronald P. Toby who discuss the long and special role of this region in Japanese history. Distributed by: The Media Production Group
A Grandpa From Brazil A Grandpa from Brazil focuses on the journey of Ken’ichi Konno, a 92-year-old Japanese man who migrated to Brazil in 1931. In telling Ken’ichi’s story, the film also traces the history of Japanese immigration to Brazil and the current “reverse immigration” from Brazil to Japan. Distributed by filmmaker.
Light Up Nippon Light Up Nippon documents the mission of a group of volunteers to set off fireworks on the night of August 11, 2011 in more than 10 towns and cities hit by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. The film tells a bittersweet story, of the pursuit to remind everyone the original meaning of fireworks: as both a memorial to the victims and as a sign of hope. Distributed by: The Japan Foundation
Families of Philippines This documentary shows the lives of two children and their families in the Philippines from morning to night -- how they go to school, what they eat, and what are some of their activities. One family lives in a rural area on the Island of Cebu and another family lives in Manila. Distributed by: Master Communications
A Quiet Revolution: Singapore’s World Class Education System Many say Singapore has the best education system in the world. This documentary shows how this system has produced amazing results and how it differs from the U.S. educational philosophy. Distributed by Filmakers Library
Into The Current: Burma’s Political Prisoners Into The Current tells the story of Burma’s unsung heroes -- its prisoners of conscience, and the price they pay for speaking the truth about military dictatorship. Using footage secretly shot in Burma, the film uncovers the stories and sacrifices of ‘ordinary’ people of exceptional courage, and the leaders who inspire them. Distributed by: Ellen Bruno Films
The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands This documentary is about America’s historic and ongoing colonial relationship with Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Although most Americans don’t believe the US is an empire, by many standards, these “insular areas” are American colonies. And most Americans know nothing about them. Distributed by: New Day Films
Kites and Monsters Kites and Monsters follows Wayan Yoga, a young Balinese from boyhood to manhood, discovering the influential and protective aspects of culture that may guide developmental neuropsychiatric processes. The protective buffer of his family guides him successfully into normative Balinese adulthood. Distributed by: Documentary Educational Resources
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