Tuesday, June 30 6PM to 8PM
Walter Reade Theatre
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 165 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023
In a world of mayhem-loving blockbusters, it is deeply inspiring that Hong Kong’s runaway box office hit of 2015 is the true story of one woman and five little girls, Miriam Yeung (Love in a Puff) plays a principal who takes a $580/month job running a failing rural kindergarten. With only five students, it’s slated for shutdown the next time one of them drops out, and since the kids have poor parents and tough lives, she figures her job will be to ease their transition. But after meeting the kids she vows to keep the doors open by any means necessary. Like NYC, Hong Kong is split into the haves and have nots, and you’re born into your class. This is the real-life story of one woman who rose up and refused to accept that.
For tickets and information: subwaycinema.com