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China Onscreen Biennial: Three Sisters ( 三姊妹) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, master documentarist Wang Bing turns his camera to the most invisible among the Chinese population, three girls living in poverty.
When:
October 27, 2012 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film. October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
THREE SISTERS
Director: Wang Bing. Producer: Sylvie Faguer, Mao Hui. Cinematographer: Huang Wenhai, Li Peifeng, Wang Bing. Editor: Adam Kerby, Wang Bing. Sound. Fu Kang. Cast: Sun Ying, Sun Zhen, Sun Fen, Sun Shunbao, Sun Xinliang.
Master documentarist Wang Bing turns his camera to the most invisible and disenfranchised among the Chinese population. In a remote village perched nearly 10,000 feet up in the Yunnan highlands, three sisters – Yingying (ten years old), Zhenzhen (six years old) and Fenfen (four years old) – are left to fend for themselves. Their mother is gone, their father works in a town reachable only after a long walk and a rickety bus ride. Day in and day out, the little girls collect peat to make fire, tend sheep, wash their own clothes at a water pump and perform all sorts of chores. In spite of their hard life and constant toil, the little girls are playful and very affectionate towards each other… until one day when their father comes home. – Bérénice Reynaud
Blu-ray, color, Yunnan dialect with English subtitles, 153 min.
Admission Tickets:
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Billy Wilder Theater
Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard (at the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tickets: $10 online. $9 general admission, $8 for non-UCLA students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members (ID required) if purchased at the box office only. Free admission for UCLA students (current ID required); free tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis at the box office until 15 minutes before showtime, or the rush line afterwards. Online tickets available at www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar; click on the individual program.
Parking: Museum parking lot; enter from Westwood Blvd, just north of Wilshire. $3 flat rate after 6:00 pm on Mondays-Fridays and all day on weekends.
Information: www.cinema.ucla.edu, 310.206.8013
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies, Confucius Institute
Phone Number:
310-206-8013
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