Event Description
Join us for a special screening of the award-winning documentary Nowhere to Call Home with film maker Jocelyn Ford on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 from 5-7 pm in Disque Hall room 103.
Following a chance encounter on the streets of Beijing, a destitute Tibetan widow tries to give her child to an international journalist, drawing the unwitting foreigner into a family feud over the only surviving heir to a Tibetan clan.The award-winning documentary NOWHERE TO CALL HOME provides a rare and intimate glimpse into the world of a Tibetan farmer, torn between her traditional way of life and her desire for her son to have a better future. Shot in the slums of Beijing and a remote Tibetan village, this gripping story of a woman determined to beat the odds puts a human face on the political strife that fractures China and Tibet. Along the way it challenges common western stereotypes about Chinese and Tibetans, and reveals a dark side of life in a traditional village, where the saying goes, 'women aren't worth a penny.'
The screening is made possible by the following sponsors: Drexel China Collaborative, School of Education Global and International Education Program, School of Education Office of Graduate Studies, Drexel Online, Women's and Gender Studies, Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages, and the Student Center for Diversity and Culture.
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