Gimme a Faith – Film Screening at the New Orleans Film Festival

NOSHA is the Community Partner with the New Orleans Film Festival for this film. We will have some free passes to give out to NOSHA people (first come, first served) and when those are all taken, you can still buy a ticket at the venue. Look for Charlotte or Audrey.

SYNOPSIS: Thousands of Chinese students arrive in the United States each year, often confronting loneliness and culture-clash upon arrival, something director Hao Zhang (Winner: NOFF Student Pitch Award, 2017) knows all too well. Arriving in North Carolina to study film, Zhang is surprised to find a unique community of Chinese students, underpinned by a newly discovered evangelical Christianity that is often at stark odds with their roots in China.

Zhang follows these students—many of whom become his close friends—as well as lone skeptic Gong, whose staunch atheism leaves him largely isolated. Self-consciously mirroring Zhang’s own expat journey, “Gimme a Faith” ponders the importance of maintaining a sense of identity and purpose in a foreign land.

Documentary
83 minutes