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Film Screening: Bad Weather
2 December 2012 - 5:00pm
Three women on the Banishanta Island, a tiny sliver of land in the Bay of Bengal, struggle for their homes and families.
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Red Sorghum - Film Screening
2 December 2012 - 4:00pm
A directorial and acting debut for Zhang Yimou and Gong Li, respectively, the film catapulted both to international stardom. The film is an adaptation of novel by 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan.
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Film Screening: The Human Tower
1 December 2012 - 4:00pm
The film documents one of the world’s most unusual team endeavors—the building of multi-storey human towers, which stems from parallel traditions in Catalonia and India.
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The Red Detachment of Women - Film Screening
30 November 2012 - 6:30pm
Adaptation of Cultural Revolution era model ballet opera features virtuosic and ecstatic dance sequences by revolutionary heroines.
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Film Screening: The Other Half of Tomorrow
29 November 2012 - 7:00pm
A vivid portrait of the lives of a diverse set of Pakistani women working to change their country.
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Discussion
Hamid Dabashi - The World of Persian Literary Humanism
29 November 2012 - 6:30pm
A fresh look, from Persian intellectual traditions, at the age-old question of what it means to be human.
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Two Stage Sisters - Film Screening
28 November 2012 - 6:30pm
Director Xie Jin's classic charts the relationship between two stage actresses, performed by Xie Fang and Cao Yindi, from 1935 to 1950 as the country goes through major political changes.
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Discussion
Creative Women in Contemporary China: Sheng Keyi
27 November 2012 - 6:30pm
One of China's leading new novelists puts a human face on the phenomenon of mass migration.
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Daybreak - Film Screening
20 November 2012 - 6:30pm
Li Lili plays a young village girl who arrives in Shanghai to discover the cruelty of life in this 1933 silent classic.
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Hibiscus Town - Film Screening
17 November 2012 - 4:00pm
Made a decade after the Cultural Revolution with Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen in the title roles, the film charts the political trajectory of a nation through the experiences of small town individuals.
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