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Cine-East: East Asian Cinema--"Land of Many Palaces" (Q&A to follow)
Duke University presents a screening of "Land of Many Palaces" as part of their Cine-East film series.
When:
April 1, 2015 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where
Film Screening: "Land of Many Palaces" (Adam James Smith and Song Ting, 2014, 61 min, China/UK, Color, Digital) / In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. "The Land of Many Palaces" follows a government official whose job is to convince these farmers that their lives will be better off in the city, and to help them adapt to urban life, and a farmer in one of the last remaining villages in the region who is pressured to move. The film explores a process that will take shape on an enormous scale across China, since the central government announced plans to relocate 250,000,000 farmers to cities across the nation, over the next 20 years.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz8ONgXS1T8
Cost:
Free and Open to the Public
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