Treeless Mountain (2008)

Directed by: So Yong Kim

With Hee Yeon Kim, Mi Hyang Kim, Song Hee Kim

- Friday, September 18, 7:00, WSH, with filmmaker So Yong Kim and producer Bradley Rust Gray

- Tuesday, September 22, 7:15, WSH

With Filmmaker So Yong Kim and Producer Bradley Rust Gray on September 18

Inspired by the director’s early childhood memories, and shot in her native South Korea, Treeless Mountain is a heartbreaking tale of a six-year-old girl and her younger sister coping with loss when their mother leaves them in the care of an alcoholic and inattentive aunt to go search for their father. The strength of this film is anchored in the shattering, natural performances (drawn out beautifully with abundant extreme close-ups) of the two young girls, and it’s through their eyes that we observe this “quiet, poignant drama of abandonment and resilience.” (NY Times) With a subtle subtext on the ills of urban encroachment, “Treeless Mountain is made of the same substance as cinema-verite, but it is woven with a dreamlike quality, making it seem like a horrific fairy tale that is at the same time painfully realistic.” (Toronto Film Festival) more at soandbrad.com. 35mm.

2008, color, 1 hour 29 minutes, USA/South Korea

Co-sponsored with Cornell Cinema

Free BBQ, performances and guest speakers to welcome the new freshman class.  Robert Purcell Community Center,  2-6pm.

Sponsored by CAPSU.

Asha-Cornell is a volunteer organization, founded in 1994, which dedicatedly supports basic educational efforts for underprivileged children in India. While most of our current members are from the Cornell community, anyone is welcome to join.

Asha-Cornell works with partner organizations in different parts of India, in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. Our funds go to community interventions all over India: from Ananda Bharati, a school for girls working as domestic help in Hydrabad, Odonadi Seva Samsthe which works with children and women rescued from the sex trade in Karnataka, Kaingkarya, a transit school for children of migrant laborers in Tamil Nadu and Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha that is trying hard to impart education to young children in Sundarban area of West Bengal and thus saving them from being trapped as labor in the prawn collection, forest produce collection and agriculture. Most projects receive at least $1000 a year from our chapter. This amount is often crucial for small organizations struggling to survive.
Over the last 12 years, we have organized various types of fund-raising events in Ithaca to financially assist our project partners in India. These have ranged from small bake-sales to large fund-raising dinners as well as concerts (Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma concert in Fall 2006, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia concert in Fall 2004, Ustad Shahid Parvez concert in Fall 2003). We have also raised awareness about Asha and Asha’s mission at the annual Diwali and Holi shows at Cornell and through screening movies from South Asia. In addition, we invite speakers to discuss issues related to children, education and poverty. Volunteers have contributed to the local Ithaca community by participating in events at the GIAC, RIBS, the Fall Creek Elementary School, Boyton Middle School and the Johnson Arts Museum at Cornell University. Asha has no administrative costs and all the funds raised go to the projects we sponsor in India.

http://www.ashanet.org/cornell/index-7.html

Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program, the Dickson/McLLU Residential Complex, Balch Residential Cngress, Bartels, Ecology House, Ethics and Public Life and SAFC

The event will be held March 6th in Cornell’s Bailey Hall from 7 PM.

Tickets are available at: http://baileytickets.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.asp?id=84&cid=20
(or www.baileytickets.com if the above link does not work).
Tickets cost $20 for the general public, and only $10 for Cornell students!