Asian Film Festival 2010: Visualizing Tibet: Serfs (Nongnu) (Li Jun, 1963, 88 min.)

• Event Date: Friday, November 5, 2010
• Time: 9:15 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film

This drama about the exploitation of a Tibetan serf and his subsequent liberation by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is an archival Chinese film from the early 1960’s that reflects Chinese attitudes towards the Tibetan people they first encountered more than 50 years ago. A classic propaganda film of the 1960’s.

All Festival films are in Chinese or Tibetan with English subtitles. 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

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