East Hartford Commission on Culture and Fine Arts Invites you to the Screening of "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom"

East Hartford, CT - The East Hartford Commission on Culture & Fine Arts presents the second film in their fifteenth series of foreign films on Saturday, February 18 at 7 PM in the Community Cultural Center at 50 Chapman Place.  Admission is free. The East Hartford Summer Youth Festival will be selling concessions, including popcorn.

Nominated for an Academy Award in 2022 for Best International Feature Film from Bhutan, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” follows city boy Ugyen to the far-flung village of Lunana, to complete the final year of his teaching contract/government service.  His dream was to venture to Australia to become a pop singer, but this dream shifts as he spends his year with the villagers, their children and the natural beauty and sounds of the middle-of-nowhere.  “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is captivating, moving and uplifting with just the right balance of humor and heart” [The NYC Movie Guru].  The film runs 1 hour and 50 minutes and was rated TV-PG.

The two other films in the series are “Made in Bangladesh” (March 18) and “The Last Tree” (UK & Nigeria; April 15).