Tantric Yogi documents the migration of a yogi, his disciples, and some of his villagers to a celebration that occurs just once every sixty years, the One Hundred Thousand Gathering in Eastern Tibet. This celebration commemorates the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet and the man who brought it there in the 8th century, Guru Rinpoche. The film features an exciting culture and the natural beauty surrounding TibetRead More »
A Tibet mountaineering school recruits qualified residents from the two counties at the foot of Mount Everest only, and trains them to be mountain guide of the Everest.Read More »
In a remote Himalayan village in Nepal, structured by the ancient tradition of polyandry, a newly-married and pregnant Pema finds her life upended when her husband, Tashi, vanishes on a trading expedition to Lhasa. Accompanied by Karma, a monk and her husband’s brother, she embarks on a grueling trek through the raw, imposing wilderness. But with every step, her physical journey transforms into a profound quest for personal freedom and self-discovery.Read More »
3 stories, 3 countries. Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia. Nomad children fill a hostile world with their wishes and their dreams. At major cross-roads in their lives, they are confronted by love, danger and death.Read More »
An intimate glimpse into the experiences of a young Tibetan family struggling to reconcile their traditional way of life with a rapidly modernizing world.Read More »
At the age of eight, Dolkar fled her home with her father to escape Chinese armed forces, and faced an arduous journey across the Himalayas. Now 26, she lives in a Tibetan refugee colony in Delhi, where an unexpected encounter with a man from her past awakens long-suppressed memories, propelling Dolkar on an obsessive search for the truth.Read More »
Fate of the Lhapa is a feature-length documentary about the last three Tibetan shamans living in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. Each lhapa requested that their story be filmed. Their fear was that the next heir might not appear until after their own deaths. Subsequently, with no lhapa alive to mentor the children, the documentary would be used to transmit the knowledge to the next generation. Their tales of nomadic childhoods, shamanic callings and apprenticeships, cosmologies of disease and treatments, and of their flight from Tibet during the Chinese occupation in the late 1950s is be juxtaposed with images of present-day life in the camp, current healing practices and shared concerns of the future and the fate of their tradition.Read More »
Synopsis
Tenzin struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother who self-immolates as a form of nonviolent protest of the treatment of Tibetans living under the current Chinese occupation.Read More »
