CCA
5
Sunday 21st October
6.00pm-7.30pm
Children of the Golden Horse
Claudia Pelz
Italy ï 2007 ï 29 mins
UK Premier
Ten-year old Jattae is a so-called "Hilltriber", one of over
100,000 members of ethnic minorities currently settled in the
mountains of North Thailand. Under Thai law these nomadic peoples
do not have citizenship, and are prevented from farming using
their traditional methods. Consequently most, like Jattae, live
in poverty, with many turning to drugs and prostitution. An
invitation to join a Buddhist Temple offers Jattae a chance
to escape such a fateÖ
 On
a Tightrope
Petr Lom
Norway/Canada ï 2006 ï
60 mins
The Xinjiang province in China has one of the worst human right's
records in the world. The region's muslim Uyghurs population
are systematically oppressed and at least 10,000 have been imprisoned,
suspected of separatism and hundreds have been executed. Petr
Lom's film follows four children from a government orphanage
who are learning the ancient Uyghur tradition of Dawaz, tightrope
walking.
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Closing Party
CCA Cafe
Sunday 21st Oct 10.30pm
 Sheila
Stewart is one of Scotland's traditional Traveller storytellers,
and Ballad singers. She has a rich repertoire and has a style
of singing that is strong and passionate and distinctively her
own yet in the fi nest mainstream of the Scottish tradition.
Last in the Line is screened in CCA 4 earlier in the day 1.15pm-
2.00pm where Sheila will also read from her biography of her
mother (Belle Stewart) Queen Amang The Heather.
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