Film Screening: “Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor” (Zhuang Wei, 2026)

Event details Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM Location: Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater Type: Film About this event ---Zhuang Wei, 2026, 89 min, China, Chinese with English subtitles--- Synopsis Returning to the unfamiliar Chaoshan homeland to live, I encountered my grand-uncle Ajun, who had returned from Cambodia. Carrying stories of surviving the Khmer Rouge, he stirred my life as I tried to become a witness. About the filmmaker: Zhuang Wei (A Zui, means "mouth" in Chinese), born in 1999, is a documentary filmmaker and freelance artist from Chaoshan, Guangdong. She also engages in artistic practices across different mediums that intervene in society. In 2021, she joined the "Folk Memory Project" at Caochangdi Workstation, where she created the feature-length documentaries Zhuang Wei's Mouth (2024) and Zhuang Wei's Testimony: The Survivor Returns (2026). She is now processing her long-term filming in the ancestral village "Wushi Village." Official event details: https://calendar.duke.edu/show?fq=id%3ACAL-8a002cbd-9fb2e569-01a0-e8f8c807-00006bf8demobedework%40mysite.edu