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The 10th anniversary of the Sister Cities International Film Festival opens Thursday with two-and-a-half months of films at Tacoma's Blue Mouse Theatre, a new film each Thursday through April 12 from one of Tacoma's many official sister cities.
This week, check out 200 Pound Beauty from Gunsan, South Korea - a sister city of Tacoma since 1978. According to promotion for 200 Pound Beauty, Hanna is a famous Korean pop singer who also suffers from poor self-esteem. In the film, Hanna "makes the decision of a lifetime to have full-body plastic surgery."
2012 Sister Cities Int'l Film Festival Schedule
Feb. 2
Gunsan, South Korea
200 Pounds Of Beauty
Feb. 9
Kitakyushu, Japan
Cast Me If You Can
Feb. 16
Kiryat-Motzkin, Israel
A Matter of Size
Feb. 23
El Jadida, Morocco
Fragments
March 1
Vladivostok, Russia
My Perestroika
March 8
Fuzhou, China
If You Are The One 2
March 15
Aalesund, Norway
Happy, Happy
March 22
Cienfuegos, Cuba
El Benny
March 29
George, South Africa
White Wedding
April 5
Davao City, Philippines
Adele
April 12
Taichung, Taiwan
Formosa Mambo
More information on the Sister Cities International Film Fest can be found at sistercityfilmfest.org.
[Blue Mouse Theatre, 200 Pound Beauty, Thursday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. doors open, 6:15 cultural program, 7 p.m. film, $10, 2611 N. Proctor St., Tacoma, 253.752.9500, sistercityfilmfest.org]
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