Film Screening: Wolf Totem

A young Beijing student is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of socialist modernization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north, humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.

Adapted from awarding-winning novel of the same title, Wolf Totem is a 2015 Chinese-language drama film by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud. It achieved great commercial success in Mainland China and was originally selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. Depicting the encroachment of the Han Chinese population on Mongol plains, the film touches on themes deemed sensitive by the Chinese government, including ethnic relations and the environmental costs of the country's breakneck industrialization.

This event will be introduced by Ralph Litzinger, Duke Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Aurelia Fava (Trinity '17), who worked as the Script Coordinator for the film. DINNER (Hibachi) provided!