Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Visualizing Tibet Film Festival
The Asian Educational Media Service, The Spurlock Museum, and
the Illinois/Indiana East Asia National Resource Center Consortium present a Tibet film festival in Urbana, Illinois.
Where
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Free Parking at Spurlock Museum Lot D21 and D22 on Oregon Street.
With a special Thursday night film event at:
The Art Theater / 126 W. Church Street, Champaign, IL
All films are in Chinese or Tibetan with English subtitles.
FREE ADMISSION
Seating will be first come, first served, and theater will be cleared between screenings.
Special Guests:
Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Arjia Rinpoche, Director, Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, IN
Lynn True, Film Director, Summer Pasture
Gary Xu, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Co-sponsors: Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), Weber State University, Kham Film Project, AsiaPacificFilms, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies UI
Supported with funding from the U.S. Department of Education National Research Centers Program
Film Festival Schedule
Tuesday, November 2
7:00pm - Unmistaken Child (Nati Baratz, 2008, 102 min)
Thursday, November 4 (Art Theater, Champaign,IL)
7:30pm - Kundun (Martin Scorsese, 1997, 135 min)
Friday, November 5
7:00pm - Summer Pasture (Lynn True and Nelson Walker, 2010, 86 min)
9:15pm - Serfs(Nongnu)( Li Jun, 1963, 88 min)
Saturday, November 6
1:00pm - Milarepa (Neten Chokling, 2006, 90 min)
3:15pm - Tantric Yogi (Chenaktsang Dorje Tsering, 2005, 50 min)
7:00pm - The Search (Pema Tseden, 2009, 112 min)
9:20pm – Song of Tibet (Xie Fei, 2000, 95 min)
Sunday, November 7
1:00pm - The Search (Pema Tseden, 2009, 112 min)
3:15pm - Milarepa (Neten Chokling, 2006, 90 min)
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