Film Screening: The Feast of Kurban Bayram

Held in conjunction with EA 301: Islam in China, Spring 2013. Chinese name: 献牲片花 48min., 2012, directed by Liu Xiangchen劉湘晨, in Kyrgyz with English subtitles. This film tells the story of the hardships for a Kyrgyz family in Xinjiang, China, who are forced to move as a new highway is constructed and as mining industry rapidly takes over. Their problems are compounded as their traditional pasturelands become slowly flooded with the completion of a hydroelectric project.