Festival of Tibetan Films and Films about Tibet FLIM PragueTashi Writes a Letter
The films of the Tibetan film archive evening courtesy of Tibet Film Archive, New York.
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Summer Pasture
In recent years, growing pressures from the outside world have posed unprecedented challenges for Tibetan nomads. Rigid government policies, rangeland degradation, and the allure of modern life have prompted many nomadic families to leave the pastures for permanent settlement in towns and cities. According to nomads, the world has entered duegnan — dark times.
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From Nomad to Nobody
Motivated by previous travels to Tibet, the narrator sets off on a personal quest, focusing on the fast-disappearing Tibetan nomad culture. Why are the nomads being forcibly relocated by Chinese officials? Why are they are being shifted off their traditional grazing lands into concrete ghettos? In these settlement camps, nomads are marginalised and have little chance of making a decent living, or finding a new profession. Previously, when grazing yaks, they were self-sufficient and lived in an entirely sustainable way.
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DROKPA, TIBETAN NOMADS
Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet, Drokpa is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change.
ROYAL CAFE, a Tibetan Film from Paris
17.4.2018 21:00 Kino Pilotů RESERVE