Sunday, March 25, 2:50pm, UNC Charlotte main campus, Fretwell 100 (Campus map)
Sponsored by the Charlotte Asian Film Festival, the UNC Charlotte Department of Philosophy, and the UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund
Phulsiri, 2:50pm, Nepal, short feature, 30 min.
One and a half months after the devastating earthquake reduced an entire village to rubble, a ten-year-old girl longs for normality. News reaches her that school will re-open in a day, and she is understandably overjoyed, but there is a hitch: she must first locate her shoes — mandatory under new school rules — in the debris that was once her home.
Echoes from the Plantations, 3:15pm, Guyana, short documentary, 38 min.
Followed by Q&A with Director Kishore Seunarine (in person)
A film inspired by the history of Indians in Guyana, learned by a young American girl as it is passed down from generation to generation.
