Americaville
Directed by Adam James Smith. 2020. China / United States. 80 minutes.
Country/Region Featured: China, United States
Online Q&A with Adam James Smith
Thursday, March 24, 12:30pm
Hidden among Beijing’s northern mountain range, a replica of the Wyoming town of Jackson Hole promises to deliver the American dream to its several thousand Chinese residents. In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.
Distributed by Adam James Smith, Archfilm
www.americavillefilm.com
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THE MOUNTAIN PATH - my search for a hermit Zen master in China
A film by Edward A. Burger. Produced by Agnes Lam. 2021. USA/China. 96 minutes.
Country/Region Featured: China
Online Q&A with Edward Burger
Thursday, March 24, 2:00pm
Inspired by China's Tang Dynasty hermit poets, Buddhist filmmaker Edward A. Burger went to China at the age of 23 to learn Mandarin and find an old mountain hermit to teach him Zen. THE MOUNTAIN PATH takes viewers into the Zhongnan Mountains to meet Burger’s life-long teacher and other recluse Buddhist practitioners living in the surrounding valleys. We witness the practical everyday challenges of mountain solitude, while the hermits share precious teachings on life, death, and the journey within.
Distributed by One Mind Productions, LLC
www.onemindproductions.com
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Zero as You Are
Directed by Miyuki Tokoi. 2020. Japan. 84 minutes.
Country/region featured: Japan
ONLINE Q&A with Miyuki Tokoi.
Thursday, March 24, 3:50pm
24-year-old Sky Kobayashi has been trying to find his true gender since childhood. Born as a girl, he was one of the first students in Japan to persuade a junior high school to accept a female as a boy. At 20, he underwent surgeries so that he could legally become a man, the youngest case in Japan. But this was just the beginning. Sky then discovered that he does not identify as a man either and is now searching beyond binary genders. We followed Sky for nine years on his journey through genders.
Distributed by MUSUBI Productions.
https://musubiproductions.amebaownd.com | https://konomi.work
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DWANDHA (The Duel): A Tale of Two Rebels
Directed by Udan Fernando. 2019. Sri Lanka. 52 minutes.
Country/region featured: Sri Lanka
IN-PERSON Q&A with Udan Fernando.
Thursday, March 24, 5:25pm
DWANDHA (Duel) is about two prominent and influential leaders of two rebel movements and insurrections in Sri Lanka from the South and North. The film unfolds a period of six decades of their life trajectories, particularly the childhood experiences that defined their destinies and their subsequent political choices which eventually influenced many young followers. Now in their late seventies, having survived to tell the tale, they reminisce the history they created and failed to create.
Distributed by the filmmaker.
Contact: udanfer2014@gmail.com
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