This film is based on a semi-autobiographical novel featuring a Chinese student who is sent to inner Mongolia to teach shepherds and instead learns about the wolf population, indigenous wisdom on human-nature harmony, and the way of nomadic life that … Read more
Carolina China Network (CCN) is hosting a lengmian (冷面, cold noodles) cooking event on Friday, April 15th from 6-9pm in Union room 3206A-B. Lengmian is a tasty Chinese dish that is especially good during the warmer months of spring and … Read more
This Friday, MONSOON is hosting a screening of Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai and a discussion with the director in Gardner Hall Room 105. Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai is a documentary film by Nakul Singh Sawhney about the socio-political-economic dynamics that shaped the violence in … Read more
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda, 2015, 119 min. Japan. In Japanese with English subtitles. When Kyuta, a young orphan living on the streets of Shibuya, stumbles into a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by Kumatestu, a gruff, rough-around-the-edges warrior … Read more
The fifth documentary in Zhang Mengqi's Self-portrait series, "Self-portrait: Dying at 47 KM," is a search for the meaning of death in the aftermath of the filmmaker's grandfather's death. Zhang Mengqi's Self-portraits are all shot in 47 KM, her ancestral … Read more
Chinese Documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang launched the Memory Project in 2010 to collect oral histories from survivors of the Great Famine (1958-1961) in rural China. Since then, several young filmmakers have joined the project. They have been to 246 villages … Read more
Film Screening: "A True Believer" (Liu Xiaolei, 2015, 80 min, China, in Chinese w/English subtitles, Color, Digital) / "A True Believer" is Liu Xiaolei's inquiry into old but ever more important ethical dilemmas of good and evil, and the individual's … Read more
From award-winning director Keiichi Hara and Japanese powerhouse Production I.G (GHOST IN THE SHELL, A LETTER TO MOMO) comes the remarkable story of a blossoming young artist, daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, best known for his iconic print “The Great Wave … Read more
"No Land" is a documentary about an old man in a deserted mountain village, digging a grave for himself. He is the filmmaker Zhang Ping's father, an anti-socialist opposing the Communist Party. He had a promising job in the city … Read more
The Memory Project aims to shine light on one of modern China's most traumatic events, the Great Famine of 1958-1961, by collecting oral histories from survivors in rural areas. The amateur filmmakers discovered their family histories and identities in the … Read more
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