This documentary follows Emily Tay, a young woman caught between her Buddhist parents, who risked everything to emigrate from Burma and expect their daughter to comply with an arranged marriage, and her own American dream.
When Emily moves to Germany to play professional basketball and falls in love with a U.S. servicewoman living under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, her story unfolds as she struggles to find the courage required to live the life she imagines.
No Look Pass is presented as part of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs’ 9th Annual Immigrant Heritage Week, celebrating the histories and traditions of the city’s diverse immigrant communities.
When: Tues, April 24, 2012, 6:50 pm
Due to limited space, RSVPs are required to guarantee seating.
Where: BAM Rose Cinemas
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“De Pueblo a Pueblo” (From Town to Town), a citywide celebration of Mexican culture, kicks off this Friday, April 27.
The eight-week festival runs through June 17, honoring Philadelphia’s growing Mexican community.
The celebration includes performances, tours, lectures, film screenings, craft activities and art shows. The event kicks off at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens with photographer Laurence Salzmann’s exhibition Echele Ganas: A Life Left Behind, a collection featuring images of the people of La Sierra del Norte, a rural village in Puebla, Mexico.
The exhibit will serve as the geographic and visual hub of De Pueblo a Pueblo.
During “De Pueblo a Pueblo” more than 25 groups are providing more than 40 opportunities to learn more about Mexican culture through hands-on activities, tradition ... 
2012 Korean Movie Night
Series III: “Epic Romance”
Romance is in the air, but this time, it’s getting EPIC.
Love that spans the ages has been a longtime favorite of Chinese and Japanese cinema, but it wasn’t until the last decade that epic, awe-inspiring romantic blockbusters made their way into Korean film –but when they hit, they hit with a vengeance! The floodgates opened and nobility clashed with peasants, royalty fell for servants, and everyone somehow stumbled across their soulmates amidst the wildest, most untamed eras of Korean history. So prepare yourself for a healthy dose of action, plenty of gut-busting comedy, and all the swoon-inducing, star-crossed lovers you can possibly take as we present New York City with a bouquet of Korea’s most epic romances!
Opening at n ... 
Brother against brother, Jew against Jew, 10,000 Jewish soldiers fought on both sides of the battlefield. This remarkable film reveals the little-known struggles that faced Jewish Americans in the field and on the home front during the nation’s deadliest war. Marjorie R. Wilson, specialist on Clevelanders in the Civil War, leads a post-viewing discussion.
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Time: 7pm
Where: 2929 Richmond Rd. Beachwood, OH 44122
Admission: $12/$10 Museum Members at the door
Order in advance and save $2! – call 216.593.0575
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The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the City of New York Parks & Recreation announce the return of its popular free outdoor series of French screenings. For the fifth consecutive year, Films on the Green will present French films in New York City parks in June and July, as well as a special screening at Columbia University in September.
The 2012 Films on the Green Festival will feature 8 free French screenings all adapted from French and American Literature. Through an array of different cinematic genres – thriller, comedy, drama, romance and musical, the 2012 line-up includes films adapted from a wide range of literary styles – fairy tale (Donkey Skin), poetry (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) and graphic novel (Persepolis) – and highlights how great French directors like Françoi ... 
A modest hit in Korea that deserves far more attention than it received, this sharp dramedy from The Servant director Kim Dae-Woo has the endearing Yun-Seo ( the legendary Han Suk-Kyu) randomly coming across an ‘indecent novel.’ Hesitant to read it at first, he’s soon inspired to write one of his own, even asking his family rival and infamous captain of guards, Gwang-Heon (Lee Beom-Su, City of Violence), to illustrate it for him. Their book is soon the most talked-about in town and it’s eventually picked up by Jeong-Bin, the king’s favorite concubine. But when she becomes a little too involved, the two men are soon drawn in a tricky web of palace intrigue that will leave no one safe.
Tribeca Cinemas:
54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Ca ... 
Originally started as an informal, one-time only presentation of Italian movies in a college lecture hall, the Italian Film Festival of Marin County has grown over its 35 years into a perennial favorite in the San Francisco Bay Area. From the beginning it has been a labor of love for its longtime director, Lido Cantarutti. Under his direction the program has included appearances from Italian film directors and composers, dignitaries of the Italian and Italian-American communities, and an authentically Italian atmosphere at every presentation. The centerpiece, however, is always top-quality Italian cinema.
Over its history, the Italian Film Festival’s formula has proven quite successful as sell-out audiences are normal. For many, attendance at the Festival is motivated by the chance t ... 
Tuesday, October 23 at 8:30pm
With his 13th film, Beijing Flickers, one of the most original and audacious voices of the Sixth Generation/Urban Generation of Chinese filmmakers returns to his inspiration in the 1990s, and artfully mixes documentary and fiction to delve into youth subculture in a society changing at full blast. Dumped by his girlfriend for a rich man, San Bao descends into a self-destructive spiral and meets several other kindred souls: a narcissistic drag queen addicted to cosmetic surgery and poetry; a female singer kicked out by her band because the other musicians hope to win a record contract by hiring someone else; a girl jilted by her corporate boss/lover. In Beijing’s melting pot of social contradictions and hybrid cultural values, Zhang Yuan captures the vuln ... 
The DocMiami International Film Festival is a celebration of documentary filmmaking at a global level. The festival showcases cutting edge documentary films during the day, and puts on outstanding music concerts in the evenings.
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