Tenzing Sonam

Dolkar is a 26-year-old living in exile in Delhi. An unexpected encounter with a figure from her past sets off a flurry of memories she had long repressed regarding the journey that brought her here.

Dolkar is a 26-year-old living in exile in Delhi. An unexpected encounter with a figure from her past sets off a flurry of memories she had long repressed regarding the journey that brought her here.

A portrait of Namdol Lhamo, a middle-aged Tibetan woman who lives in Brussels and works as a housekeeper in an old people's home. Lhamo is one of the famous Drapchi 14, a group of nuns imprisoned in the notorious Drapchi prison of Lhasa in the early 1990s for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation.

얼굴도 모르는 여자와 중매결혼을 하게 된 작은 마을의 택시 운전사를 통해 현대와 과거가 충돌하는 인도의 현실을 목도한다.

Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?

Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?

Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?

Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?

An intimate look at the life of a young lama as he aspires to live up to the reputation of his former incarnation. It also explores his moving relationship with the two people closest to him, his attendant and his spiritual master, both of whom were connected to him in his previous life.

고향을 떠나 뉴욕에 살던 티베트 출신의 젊은 여인 카르마(텐진 초키 갸초)가 티베트 망명 정부가 있는 인도의 다람살라로 찾아온다. 더불어 그는 티베트를 탈출해 다람살라로 망명한 정치적 수감자들을 인터뷰해 다큐멘터리를 만드는 작업을 한다. 그것은 그의 뿌리를 찾는 작업이기도 하다. 나이트클럽에 가고 서구 문명에 익숙하며 머리도 노랗게 염색을 한 그는 그렇게 다람살라에서 지내며 뉴욕에서 있었던 개인적인 기억들로부터도 빠져나오려 한다. 뉴욕은 오직 인터넷 카페에서 온라인으로 접하는 것 외에는 이제 아무런 의미도 아니게 됐다. 티베트에서 자유를 꿈꾸는 사람들의 마지막 희망은 돈을 받고 그들을 네팔로 탈출시켜주는 안내원에게 그들의 운명을 맡기는 것뿐이었다. 그들은 네팔로 탈출하여 그들의 정신적 지도자 달라이 라마가 망명생활을 하고 있는 인도의 다람살라로 가서 안전하게 살 수 있을 것으로 생각했던 것이다. 인터뷰어들 중 하나인 돈덥(잠파 칼싱)과 함께 인도 델리 등 여러 곳을 여행하면서 승려뿐만 아니라 상인, 음악인, 과거의 게릴라 등을 만난다. 그렇게 다양한 사람들을 접하면서 두 사람은 서구에 집착해 있던 현대 티베트인들의 모습, 중국에 의해 말살돼 간 티베트의 슬픈 현대사와 마주하게 된다. 여행이 계속되는 가운데 그들은 달라이 라마의 석방을 기원하며 단식을 하는 사람들을 만나 눈물을 흘리고, 점차 서로에게 끌리고 있는 자신을 발견하게 된다.

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

Choenzey is a 47-year-old monk living in a Tibetan refugee monastery in South India. His spiritual master, Khensur Rinpoche, a revered high lama, has been dead for four years. According to Tibetan belief, he will soon be reincarnated. It is Choenzey's responsibility, as his closest disciple, to find the reincarnation and to look after him. The film follows Choenzey's search and his eventual discovery of an impish but gentle 4-year-old boy who is recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan State Oracle to be the reincarnation. Without sentimentality, the film captures the moving relationship that develops between the erstwhile disciple and his young master. (columbia.edu)