Miss Nowhere to Call Home last week at MoMA?
By popular demand, we will be screening the film at Trace Foundation. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Jocelyn Ford.
Widowed at twenty-eight, Tibetan farmer Zanta defies her tyrannical father-in-law and refuses to marry his other son. When Zanta's in-laws won't let her seven-year-old go to school, she flees to Beijing to become a street vendor. Destitute, she inveigles a foreign customer into paying her boy's school fees. On a holiday trip back to her village, Zanta's in-laws take her son hostage, drawing the unwitting American into the violent family feud. The two women forge a partnership in a bid to out-maneuver the in-laws. A "deeply moving” and “ethically challenging" story (Jonathan Watts, the Guardian), <em>Nowhere to Call Home</em> provides an intimate and brutally frank view of village family life and the struggles Tibetan migrants face in Beijing.
Year: 2014
Director: Jocelyn Ford
Language: Qiang, English, Chinese
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 77 minutes
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