FLIM 2011

A Shawl to die for

2008 India, a film by Rita Benerji, 21 minutes

English with Czech subtitles

A Stranger in my Native Land

1998 India, a film by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, 32 minutes

English with Czech subtitles

Daughters of Wisdom

2007 USA, a film by Bari Pearlman, 68 minutes

In Tibetan with English and Czech subtitles

On the Eastern Tibetan plateau of Kham, at an altitude of 14,000 feet, subsistence farmers and nomadic herding families sprinkle the craggy mountains of Nangchen. Their way of life has changed little in over 2,000 years, and for most it is a life of illiteracy, poverty and hunger.

Dreaming Lhasa

Details

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

India

2005

DVD

4:3

90min.

Tibetan, English

Czech subtitles

Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but is also escaping a deteriorating relationship back home.

DREAMING LHASA - Official Trailer

Early German Travel Logues (1920's) - Three Silent Films

The films of the Tibetan film archive evening courtesy of Tibet Film Archive, New York.

Rare and unusual footage of dance, prayer, and chanting filmed by German documentarians filmed in the North East of Tibet in the 1920's. Includes Cham dances at the Kumbum monastery as well as pilgrims earning money for their journey to a Tibetan Lama monastery.