Class is in session! Behind the Scenes isn't just a movie night, it's where you'll come to explore, through film, what it really means to be Chinese. Our host and film expert Mao Chu Cheng will guide you through each film, helping you understand them as a means of social commentary and showing you the Chinese culture deeply embedded in even the simplest scenes.

This month we're guiding you through a classic, Red Sorghum.

Young Jiu'er (Gong Li) is sent by her parents to marry an old leper who owns a distillery. As she is being carried over the sorghum fields, bandits attack and she is rescued by a laborer (Wen Jiang),with whom she has a son -- the narrator. After the old leper dies, Jiu'er takes control of the distillery and invites the workers into a collective arrangement. But as the Sino-Japanese War peaks, Japanese troops storm onto the property determined to destroy the sorghum fields.

Date: Friday, Aug 26

Time: 7pm- 9pm

Cost: 50 RMB/ 40RMB for Culture Yard students

Source: thebeijinger.com