*Sold Out: Email human@unc.edu to be added to the waitlist* Carolina Asia Center, the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Phillips Ambassadors, and Carolina Public Humanities invite you to Silverspot Cinema for an evening of food, conversation, and … Read more
Southeast Asian Approaches present free movie screening of popular Thai heist thriller "Bad Genius" (2017). The movie follows Lynn, an intelligent high school student who develops an elaborate plan to help other students cheat. Things eventually get out of hand … Read more
This movie screening is free and open to the public! About the Movie: "A Korean police captain named Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho) has been charged with rooting out members of his country’s resistance movement by his cruel Japanese overlords. But while Lee … Read more
A Taxi Driver is a 2017 South Korean historicalaction drama film directed by Jang Hoon, with Song Kang-ho starring in the title role, alongside Thomas Kretschmann. The film centers on a taxi driver from Seoul, who unintentionally becomes involved in the events of the Gwangju Democratization Movement in 1980. Free … Read more
Tokyo Story (1953), the most famous film in Ozu Yasuji's so-called "Noriko triology" and regularly ranked first among the top-ten greatest films of all time, is based loosely on Leo McCrarey's 1937 American melodrama, Make Way for Tomorrow. An elderly … Read more
Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., MAINELAND is a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan teenagers as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine. Part of the enormous wave of "parachute … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to invite everyone to our Triangle East Asia Colloquium 2019 on the theme of Transnational Korean Cinema and Media from March 28 - 29, 2019 featuring short films and panelists from all around the … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to invite everyone to our Triangle East Asia Colloquium 2019 on the theme of Transnational Korean Cinema and Media from March 28 - 29, 2019 featuring short films and panelists from all around the … Read more
Recently qualified for the 2019 Oscars, the award-winning and feature documentary "Letter from Masanjia" will be coming to you at the University of North Carolina! "Letter from Masanjia" tells the story of how a desperate SOS note from a Chinese … Read more
Cities of Cinema: Hollywood and Bollywood Located on opposite sides of the globe, the cities of Los Angeles and Mumbai are homes to thriving international film industries known as Hollywood and Bollywood. This Dialogues seminar will compare and contrast these … Read more
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