INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
A LITTLE WISDOM
Japanese Premiere


SCREEN INFO①
SCREEN INFO②
STORY
A Little Wisdom is an intimate portrait of the lives of orphaned young monks living in an isolated Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lumbini, Nepal. Through the eyes of Hopakuli the film searchs for transcendent insights on the relationships between brothers, between friends, between teachers and student, and perhaps most importantly, between the rough and tumble lives of adolescent boys and the austere religious environment they call home.
STORY CONSULTANT: Alan Berliner / PRODUCER : Maro Chermayeff, Yuqi Kang / CO-PRODUCERS : Amitabh Joshi, Riga Shakya / PRODUCER PRESENTATIVE : Sean Farnel / CINEMATOGRAPHERS : Yuqi Kang, Paola Ochoa, Amitabha Joshi / SOUND DESIGNER : Yuqi Kang / COMPOSER : Martin Zaulich / MUSIC : Drukmo Gyal Dakini / EDITOR : Yuqi Kang / EDITING CONSULTANT : Donna Sheperd / STILL PHOTOGRAPHER : Liaoyi Wang / MOTION GRAPHIC ARTIST : Wenting Wu / GRAPHIC ARTIST : Adam Zhu, Chen Li
DIRECTOR : Yuqi Kang
Canada, Nepal, China / 2017 / 92min / Color / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.
Language : Hindi, Nepali, Tibetan
World premiered at Busan International Film Festival 2017
DIRECTOR

Yuqi Kang
Born in Inner Mongolia, China. After studied drawing at a college, Yuqi traveled the world working as an art teacher. She then moved to New York and studied films at Social Documentary Film Program at the School of Visual Arts. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in Social Documentary Film. Production of “A LITTLE WISDOM” began during her attendance of the film school in NY. Her short documentary Last Days of Domino premiered at DOC NYC and was awarded Experimental Short Honorable Mention. Her short Cities and Memory premiered at the World Arts Film Festival and was awarded Best Experimental Short at the “ACCOLADE” competition.
TRAILER
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Line-up

FACING THE WIND
DIRECTOR : Meritxell Colell Aparicio
Spain, Argentina, France / 2018 / 108min / COLOR / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.

A LITTLE WISDOM
DIRECTOR : Yuqi Kang
Canada, Nepal, China / 2017 / 92min / Color / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.

THE TASTE OF RICE FLOWER
DIRECTOR : Pengfei
China / 2017 / 95min / Color / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.

A HAUNTING HITCHHIKE
DIRECTOR : Heejae Jeong
South Korea / 2017 / 108min / Color / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.

HURRY SLOWLY
DIRECTOR : Anders Emblem
Norway / 2018 / 68min / Color / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.

STRAY
DIRECTOR : Dustin Feneley
New Zealand / 2018 / 104min / Color / DCP / JPN Sub.

THE CHAOTIC LIFE OF NADA KADIĆ
DIRECTOR : Marta Hernaiz Pidal
Mexico / 2018 / 85min / Color / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.

THE SNATCH THIEF
DIRECTOR : Agustín Toscano
Argentina, Uruguay, France / 2018 / 95min / Color / DCP / JPN & ENG Sub.