Uniform Buffalo Boy

These highly praised films come from China and from Vietnam.

Second feature start time: 8:45 pm. In the absorbing drama Uniform, a timid tailor's life is transformed when he begins wearing a police officer's uniform left at his shop. The film won the prestigious Dragons & Tigers award at the Vancouver Film Festival. (Diao Yinan, China, 2003; 92 mins.)

Buffalo Boy follows the strikingly filmed journey undertaken by a Vietnamese teenager transporting his family's buffalo during the rainy season. The Chicago Tribune praised the film, calling it "an epic, sensitive study [by] a gifted, humane filmmaker." (Minh Nguyen-Vo, Vietnam, 2004; 98 mins.)


support credits

Presented at the Wexner Center with support from Janet Radakovich and Paul Michael Schmucker.

Season support provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.

Contemporary films, international films, and visiting filmmakers presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.