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Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion – Fan Jian and Still Tomorrow (2016)

November 10, 2017
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Room 511
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Film Screening and Discussion “Fan Jian and Still Tomorrow“ Fan Jian, Filmmaker Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University Despite not having finished high school, Yu Xiuhua became an overnight internet sensation and China’s most famous poet in 2015. Her book of poetry has become the most widely distributed and sold poetry book in China for the past 20 years. As a young woman with cerebral palsy, she discusses her limited marriage options in rural China and shares her experience as a woman who was married off to a stranger when she was 18. Through her poems, she contemplates her fate, and writes about the human body, life, sex, and her yearning for true love. Still Tomorrow won the IDFA Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary and was an official selection of IDFA 2016, HotDocs 2017, Sheffield Doc Fest 2017, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.