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- An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.
- A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending...
- In a Himalayan polyandrous village, pregnant PEMA faces scrutiny as her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks him in the wild, unraveling her own self-discovery along the journey
- A father and son argue over whether they should kill a snow leopard that broke into their home and killed 9 sheep.
- Milarepa is a tale of greed and vengeance - demons, magic, murder and redemption. It is the story of the man who became Tibet's greatest mystic.
- With the high development of human civilization there is less and less pure land on the earth. The conflict between humans and nature keeps intensifying. Many primitive cultures and beliefs are gradually disappearing. "The Soul of Himalaya" is a story of the Lhoba people's legends and customs. The film portrays a warrior's journey to save an ancient tribe whose way of life is threatened.
- Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.
- When a series of visions send a skeptical entrepreneur to seek spiritual advice, an eccentric Buddhist monk predicts his imminent death, unless he can locate an elusive lady with fangs.
- On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the truck driver notices that his new friend has a silver dagger strapped to his leg. He comes to understand that his man is out to kill someone who wronged him earlier in life. As he drops the hitch-hiker off at a fork in the road, little does the truck driver realize their short time together has changed everything, and that their destinies are inexorably intertwined.
- A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.
- Kong, who comes to Tibet for the first time as a government official, is in desperate need of a translator, and finds Jigme.
- In a nunnery in the high desert mountains of Mustang, a revered abbess dies, leaving signs that she will be reborn in the precious human form. Prayers and ritual must be done to help her consciousness into its next rebirth, but the nunnery coffers are empty. The senior nuns decide that the only way out is get back money loaned out by the nunnery. A mysterious loan was made out to an equally mysterious Mr. Tashi who visited the senior nun in her last days. Given the shady rumours about Mr. Tashi, the nuns are convinced he took advantage of her in her dying state. Two nuns are assigned to retrieve the money; Karma, a free-spirited nun, and her opposite, a textbook-sort of nun called Sonam. They journey from the cloistered world of the high mountains, to the faraway cities of sin, to find the elusive Mr. Tashi.
- A killer is entrusted with a sacred mission.
- A work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, Dark Red Forest is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan Plateau. With extraordinary intimacy, the camera nestles in with the women of the Yarchen Monastery, who, during the 100 coldest days of the year, learn about-and in some cases experience-profound matters of life and death, suffering and healing, karma and consequence. A document of the experiences of a group of increasingly politically embattled people, Jin Huaqing's film is also a clarifying work of faith and philosophical inquiry, set against a forbidding landscape.
- 20111h 26mNot Rated7.0 (210)48MetascoreCrazy Wisdom is the long-awaited feature documentary to explore the life, teachings, and "crazy wisdom" of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, a pivotal figure in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Called a genius, rascal, and social visionary; 'one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the 20th century,' and 'the bad boy of Buddhism,' Trungpa defied categorization. Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered our preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave - he openly smoked, drank, and had intimate relations with students - yet his teachings are recognized as authentic, vast, and influential. Twenty years after his death, with unprecedented access and exclusive archival material, Crazy Wisdom looks at the man and the myths about him, and attempts to set the record straight.
- An adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in ancient Tibet.
- Set in a beautiful Himalayan valley, it's a journey of a neglected and abandoned mute boy, who loses his mother at birth and is furiously neglected by his father. When his father goes behind bars, the boy stares at a lonely and deserted life ahead. His relationship with an elderly Buddhist monk helps him to detach from his voiceless suffering and to explore the bond that each creation shares with nature. With nowhere to go, he joins a Budhist monastery even as he fights an inner battle of unrequited love.
- A family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price.
- 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.
- This is the story of Kunsang Wangmo, a 100-year-old Buddhist nun exiled from Tibet in 1959 to escape the Chinese occupation. Mola entered a monastery at six years old, the beginning of a life-long dedication to prayer and daily observance of Buddhist teachings and rituals. While in Tibet, she married a monk and gave birth to two girls. The Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, and after a decade of war and oppression, the family escaped - crossing inhospitable mountains on foot. Mola and her family ended up in India enduring the dangers and intense difficulties of life as refugees. There she lost one of her daughters, as well as her husband and was left only with her remaining daughter, Sonam Dolma. Slowly, their situation improved, and in 1972, Sonam fell in love with Martin Brauen, a Swiss anthropology student studying in India. They married, and Mola and Sonam both moved with Martin to Switzerland. When the film begins, they have lived together in Bern for 45 years, with Mola continuing her daily Buddhist rituals and prayers. Mola is very energetic and spirited for her age, and we get to see her humorous and feisty approach to life. Still, she is an old woman and needs complete, selfless care from Sonam. We get glimpses of Mola's backstory in evocative "dreams" of her time in the monastery and as a refugee. When Mola celebrates her 100th birthday, she reveals to Sonam that she wants to die "in the religious paradise of Tibet". After caring for Mola for all these years, the prospect of having her return to Tibet for this important phase in her life has a very emotional impact on Sonam. Despite their misgivings, Martin and Sonam begin the challenging months-long process of acquiring a visa from the Chinese embassy. As they navigate this frustrating bureaucracy, life goes on in their household. Mola continues her devotion to her Buddhist rituals while mother and daughter navigate the prospect of their separation and the end of Mola's life. Eventually, Mola is allowed to travel to Tibet, and Sonam and Martin adapt to life alone while watching videos of Mola enjoying life with her relatives. But in a surprising turn of events, after 6 months, Mola's visa is not extended and she is forced to fly back to Switzerland. When Mola returns, it is clear that she has aged and become much more frail. With the reality of Mola's mortality becoming clear, the beauty of this mother/daughter relationship comes to a powerful resolution. This film is the story of a devout and charismatic woman who, like millions of others, ends up displaced due to political upheaval, creating a life of dignity and meaning far from home. It is also the intimate and universal story of a mother and daughter, with all the love and challenges of an entire life together.
- The Sherpa family break a taboo and take part in the Himalayan expedition to Kumbhakarna,the holiest of mountains, to earn money for their son's school and cut him from their tradition. They accompany the leading world class alpinists.
- 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.
- A young Tibetan monk go back home for the New Year's celebrations. Fascinated by television, he wants to bring his family's television to the monastery to show it to his master.
- A married couple lives happily in Singapore but than someone try to come between them.
- 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.
- During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains. One day he's forced to miss a flight and is replaced by his friend, Bill March. March's plane is lost en route and Simms feels guilty. Back in America he meets March's widow, Elaine. They marry and then both travel to Tibet to learn more about March's fate and about a mysterious Tibetan mask which has come into their possession.
- Since 1950, Tibet has been occupied by China. Dorjee, a young Tibetan, grew up in peace 40 years later. After the death of his father, it all comes to a point, where he realizes that his wings are already cut, what it means to be Tibetan in a country which is called "China". Inside Tibet and in exile, a last cry for freedom starts.
- A filmmaker searches the Himalayas for an actor and actress to play the lead roles in his Tibetan opera.
- A Buddhist spirit possesses a young Muslim girl in a small village in north India. As she goes into trance, she speaks a language different from her own. This bizarre and rare phenomenon breeds hostility within her community and leads to a failed attempt on her life by the villagers. With the help and support from her family and friends, she tries to gain a better understanding of what is happening to her and negotiates a spiritual path by which she can practice both the religions and be of help to people in need.
- In the remote mountains of Tibet, a teenage girl must choose between supporting her family after her father's political imprisonment or joining a group of oppressed nuns on their journey to freedom.
- The story of a young Tibetan man who must solve the mystery of disappearance of his father's corpse.
- Ala Changso is the transliteration of a Tibetan folk song's title meaning please drink up this cup of good wine. It tells the story of a woman who conceals her illness and the secret between her and her ex-husband and decides to go on a pilgrimage to Lhasa. The long pilgrimage reveals her inner secrets one by one. These secrets include entanglements and perplexities of love, morality, responsibility and belief between her and her ex-husband and between her and her second husband.
- A monk from Tibet arrives in Oakland in California on an unlikely mission: to meet his son after more than ten years of separation.
- Ngawang (Damtin Tserang) is a young nomad who is the son of a talented musician. He is cocksure in his belief that he himself will become a folk singer popular among all Tibetan households. After he gets his comeuppance at a talent contest, he meets a girl who looks like the image of "Loyiter", the Goddess of art or the Goddess of Wonder, the image of whom is painted on his precious amulet. This girl tells Ngawang that his dream of greatness can come true if he records an album. Thus begins a musical odyssey across the landscape of Tibet that is packed full of surprising twists and encounters with a variety of people, be they fearsome bandits with heavy metal flair lurking in the wilderness to shoe gaze rock acts performing on the stage in the big city, all of whom provide musical inspiration as he learns the ins and outs of the modern music biz whilst holding on to traditional culture passed down to him.
- A single-mother treks over rugged mountains, along with a family of winter-migrants, to give up her only son to foster care.
- Yangchan, a young Tibetan girl from a sheep herding family, is trying to make sense of her changing world.
- Story of a Tibetan refugee youth in India who is a die hard fan of the Hollywood actor Richard Gere.
- Tibetan Buddhist nuns have for centuries sought the audacious idea of equality within their ancient faith. Empowered by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, they now receive the highest monastic degree a Geshema or a Phd degree. The film explores their journey.
- 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.
- A look at the life of Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, who spent 33 years in prison as his nation was seized by China.
- An intimate glimpse into the experiences of a young Tibetan family struggling to reconcile their traditional way of life with a rapidly modernizing world.
- Amazingly true story of reincarnation of Buddhist monks, high up in the Himalayas.
- Every winter Mikma and her family travel by foot from their village deep in the Himalaya of Nepal to sell local medicinal plants in urban markets. This year, construction of a new highway to China has begun in their roadless valley, and things are never going to be the same. Partially complete, the highway project will transform this roadless Himalayan valley permanently and open up a direct transport route between Nepal and China - bringing new challenges, new opportunities, and ultimately a new way of being to those who live along its path. This documentary film is a deep dive into a way of life that is in the midst of a slow and chaotic, yet inexorable transition. Through the subjects' experiences, a document of a time and place emerges - one that details life in the Himalayas before a new highway forever transforms this mountain landscape.
- Based on the life of the primitive Tibetan herdsmen, takes the breathtaking struggle to track down the horse thieves, and embodies the Tibetan culture
- In Tansen (Nepal) lives a young Tibetan woman: Metok, a rural midwife. She decided to keep her word to her mother and crossing the border towards Tibet and assist women in their labor work.
- A documentary that explores the Tibet-issue from both sides. Includes interviews with officials of both the Peoples Republic of China and the Tibetan government-in-exile.
- Documentary about the rice farmers in Phek, Nagaland in Myanmar.
- A look at the life and struggles of the Tibetan people and their culture told through music.
- A young filmmaker Autumn sets out on a trip with an idea for a short documentary on education that takes her from London to Tibet, alone. Filming her friend Qian, who was a volunteer teacher in Lhasa, then staying at a Tibetan student, Tsezin's home deep in the Tibetan grasslands far from the conveniences of the city life she'd always known. Autumn began learning how to simply survive in an alien world at 4500 meters (15,000 ft.) - the hazardous lack of oxygen, the sudden and potentially deadly turns of weather, this mixed with Tsezin's unexpected exam results and her own complicated emotions triggered by cultural differences and physical discomfort... Unexpected events along the way cause an overhaul of the meanings behind the values and beliefs that echo within her. She embraced a sense of peace and joy that came along with the discovery of the harsh but gentle simplicity of the grasslands and the sincerity of human relationships. The short evolved into a feature documentary, shot over three years on location in Lhasa and in the remote grasslands of Tibet. As she watched things unfold naturally, she saw how all things are connected, what comes with it is a continual peacefulness and joy.