FILMS OF THE SPIRIT

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

Tibet in Song (USA) | (86 min; 2009; Tibetan & English)

Director: Ngawang Choephel

Recipient of the International Human Rights Award, Cinema for Peace Awards 2010; and Special Jury Prize – World Cinema Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 2009

Screening will be followed by a discussion with the director

The film is both a celebration of traditional Tibetan folk music and a harrowing journey into the past fifty years of cultural repression inside Chinese-controlled Tibet. The Director, a former Tibetan political prisoner, Ngawang Choephel, weaves a story of beauty, pain, brutality and resilience, introducing Tibet to the world in a way never before seen on film, Depicting an array of traditional folk songs sung by native Tibetans, the film eloquently tells the tale of cultural exploitation and resistance in Tibet

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)