Screening: Hidden Letters

Director of the Scandinavian Cultural Center

Scandinavian Cultural Center

Join us for a screening of  the winner of the Best Norwegian Doc Award at the Bergen Film Festival, Hidden Letters.

Join us for a screening of  the winner of the Best Norwegian Doc Award at the Bergen Film Festival, Hidden Letters.For thousands of years, women in China, who were often forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write, shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written with delicate strokes made from sharpened bamboo sticks dipped in ink, Nushu bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood and survival. Fast forward to contemporary China, where two modern women are connected by their fascination with Nushu. In Jiangyong, Hu Xin works as a Nushu museum guide and aspires to master the ancient script following the breakup of her marriage. In Shanghai, Simu is passionate about music and Nushu, but archaic expectations threaten to end her pursuit of both. Influenced by Nushu’s legacy of female solidarity, the two women struggle to find balance as they forge their own paths in a culture steeped in female subservience to men.Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 | 1pm | $10; $5 for SCC and Scandinavian Library members

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Screening: Hidden Letters

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