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- This documentary,full of metaphor ,was filmed in one of the most mysterious place in China. Sonam darge, a Lama poet, lives here and as a romantic soul, he's fond of composing poems, even fantasizing being reincarnation of Tsangyang Gyatso. Because he learned that if something can't speak out,then,write poems.With sorrow over death of his cousin and great concern over Tibetan culture, he went to cities to learn Han culture, calligraphy and visual design.However,he was not able to feel sense of belonging to Han society due to press's rejection to publish his anthology.As a result,he resort to illegal publication,and give up communicating with Han,in this way,he found his own inner peace.
- An undocumented Tibetan immigrant and a reckless Dominican-American truck driver forge a relationship that helps them overcome the adversities and heartbreak that life offers.
- Amazingly true story of reincarnation of Buddhist monks, high up in the Himalayas.
- 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.
- JOURNEY FROM ZANSKAR reveals the lengths to which a dedicated community will go to seek an education for its children--on foot, on horseback, by jeep or bus--whatever it takes.
- A documentary on undiscovered musicians all over the world.
- All year long there is an 'eternal line' of people waiting to visit the Anne Frank House in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. Who are they? Where are they from? And why are they here? This film watches the line through the course of the four seasons, in search of stories from all over the world. We see people both before and after their visit to the Secret Annex, and hear what it felt like to spend a few moments in such close touch with history. Personal stories are interspersed with passages from Anne Frank's diary, read in many different languages by girls about the same age as Anne at the time. Meanwhile we get an impression of everyday life as it unfolds around those waiting in line - the canal boats, the street musicians, the ticket seller, the homeless man... For all its poignancy "In Line for Anne Frank" is a document that also inspires hope.
- A group of Brazilians go on a pilgrimage to eight holy places of Buddhism in India and Nepal. Dealing with the harshness of the journey, disappointment and homesickness, the travelers unveil their inner universe.
- The documentary film The Jewel follows the process of creating a Buddhist monument of Enlightenment, Stupa Sofia, in its entirety. In an inspiring and understandable way, it reveals their deep symbolism and meaning.
- A twelve year old boy, living in a yurt but in love with hip hop and computer games is caught between modernity and tradition, aspirations and poverty and decides to become a Buddhist monk.
- A Quiet Revolution begins on March 12, 1959 when 15,000 unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to oppose the violent occupation of their country by the Communist Chinese army. For the first time on film, three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama tell the story of one of the great movements of nonviolent resistance in modern history. From the streets of Lhasa to their principal refuge in Dharamsala, India, the stories that live at the heart of this film offer an intimate and direct experience of what it is to lose everything and begin anew. Ama Adhe recounts 28 years spent in a Chinese prison and the deep faith that allowed her to survive the ordeal as she teaches new generations of young refugees. Dolma Tsering describes sacrifices her parents made as exiles so that she might become first a teacher and then a member of Parliament, and Tseten Choeden, born and raised in exile, ensures that her Tibetan birthright is passed on to her own children as she wrestles with a culture in transition. After more than 50 years in exile, His Holiness the Dalai Lama pays tribute to the courage of these remarkable women and their ability to keep their cultural legacy intact for generations to come.
- A documentary featuring the Maitreya Buddha lineage. It connects the Maitreya Buddha emanation to Guru Rinpoche or Lord Padmasambhava, Lord Marpa and to the present day 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa Rinpoche and the Palpung Sherabling Monastic seat hidden in the folds of the heady pine forests in Himachal Pradesh in India. Palpung Sherabling is also the famed monastery that won the Grammy award in 2004 in the traditional music section for it's Sacred Chants. This 67 minutes documentary is directed by Shivajee Chandrabhushan, National and International Award winning director. The documentary features H.H. The Dalai Lama, H.H. The 17th Karmapa and high Tibetan Lamas speaking about the brilliance of the Palpung lineage.
- 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.
- Documentary that follows the journey to India that many Tibetan children make each year, in order to be able to be educated in their own language about their own customs. Focuses on three young children who recently made the journey, as well as an older Tibetan man who is completing his education.
- 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.
- A documentary on the life story of Desmond Tutu and his journey during the crucial years of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
- The story of a young Tibetan man who must solve the mystery of disappearance of his father's corpse.
- A look at the life and struggles of the Tibetan people and their culture told through music.
- A film follows romantic relationships as developing in various corners of the globe.
- Nurturing Compassion portrays the Seventeenth Karmapa, leader of the Karma Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and his tour of Germany in 2014, his first-ever visit to Europe. Following in the footsteps of his previous incarnation, genuinely regarded as one of the 20th Century's great saints, the Karmapa must live up to the legacy of his predecessor and guide his lineage through challenging times
- Visioning Tibet chronicles the passion of humanitarian award-winning doctor Marc Lieberman. His mission: to end preventable blindness in Tibet by 2020.
- After a Buddhist boy in the highlands of northern India discovers that he is the reincarnation of a centuries-old Tibetan monk, his godfather takes him on a journey to discover his past.
- A woman decides to have a meaningful life after entering pension age. For 30 years Irmtraut Wäger headed German Aid To Tibetans and helped the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans in exile. She collected about 30 million Euros in donations and took care of over 5.000 Tibetan godchildren. Furthermore she facilitated the construction of schools, hospitals, kindergardens and old people's homes all over India. Today she is seen as a shining example of successful refugee relief.
- A look at the life of Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, who spent 33 years in prison as his nation was seized by China.
- 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 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.
- The film is a journey through some twenty countries where existential issues are addressed and the participants have all taken a stand against modern society and trying to make human life better.
- 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.
- When a Tibetan refugee dies from a terminal illness, his last wish to set foot on his native soil remains unfulfilled - until his son, a New York-based artist, embarks on an unthinkable journey.
- Freddy Lim is a founder and singer of the famous black metal band Chthonic from Taiwan. Apart from that, he has been a member of the Taiwanese parliament since 2016, sitting on the committees for National Defence and Foreign Affairs. He is a member of a coalition working closely with Taiwan's first-ever female president. The film accompanies the rock star politician for his first year in political office as he opposes China's policy towards Taiwan and Tibet. As an activist fighting for human rights, he meets with the Dalai Lama, but also takes part in Donald Trump's inauguration even though he has many reservations about him. Freddy Lim is on the front line. But he still occasionally puts on his face paint and sings in a diabolical voice at the front of his black metal band. Strangely, the two worlds are coming together.
- Return to Gandhi Road tells the powerful story of Kangyur Rinpoche; a renowned Tibetan Master who, heeding the imminent danger of the 1950's Cultural Revolution, and under the instructions of the Dalai Lama, braved the dangerous journey over the Himalayan mountains to India, rescuing two tons of Buddhist texts that otherwise faced potential extinction. The journey took over three years, was undertaken on foot accompanied by his young family, and involved immense physical hardship. Once in Darjeeling he built Orgyen Kunsang Chokhorling, a Monastery at 54 Gandhi Road. It was at this address that a handful of single-minded Westerners, in search of a more meaningful life, began to arrive in the late 1960's. Their meeting, although brief (with Rinpoche's passing in 1975), eventually had an extraordinary widespread effect - directly contributing to Buddhism's spread throughout the Western world. Told through the eyes of one of those first Westerners, New Zealander Kim Hegan, as he now, more than 40 years after Rinpoche's passing and his Buddhist practice abandoned, will re-trace the journey he made to Darjeeling 46 years earlier, to tell Rinpoche's profound story, while healing the trauma that kept him away for so long.
- The story of Tenzin, a restless young poet and a second generation Tibetan born and brought up in India, who after many years in exile decides to return to his homeland, Tibet, in search of his own voice and identity. What follows is a road trip across the Himalayas, from Dharamsala to Ladakh, where Tenzin loses himself in experiences and the moment, hoping to find himself along the way. What he finds is a sense of his karma, a glimpse of his destiny, and mirrored in that is the destiny of the Tibetan nation. Tenzin decides to cross one of the most volatile borders in the world on a personal quest - to see his country with his own eyes. It is a noble aim, and while in pursuit of it Tenzin finds the courage it takes to pursue the truth. He finds his Semshook.
- An intimate glimpse into the experiences of a young Tibetan family struggling to reconcile their traditional way of life with a rapidly modernizing world.
- A Tibetan-Canadian returns to her homeland to smuggle a secret message from the Dalai Lama and to document the occupation and cultural genocide of Tibet by China.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jamyang is a young Buddhist monk who has recently finished his intermediate monastic education. He is now heading towards higher monastery for his higher education. In the course of his journey into the war-torn mountains, he meets a young rebel, Arjun. This is a story of their journey where they form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives.
- Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo - The Great Mother recounts the compelling story of Dekyi Tsering, the mother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Dekyi Tsering, known by Tibetans as 'Gyalyum Chemo' or 'Great Mother,' gave birth to 16 children, three of whom were recognized as incarnate lamas. Weaving anecdotal threads and personal reflections from her children, grandchildren, and friends, with never before seen photographs from their family collections and rare footage of Tibet, the film offers an intimate glimpse into Tibet's first family and the woman who inspired them. His Holiness talks about how his mother helped shape the man he is today and the relationship between healthy family and healthy humanity, and how it all begins with a mothers love. Dr. Marion Woodman (Addiction to Perfection), Alice Walker (The Color Purple), and Angeles Arrien (The Second Half of Life) link this uniquely Tibetan story to a much broader perspective of motherhood and how the Great Mother lives within each of us.
- Documentary about the rice farmers in Phek, Nagaland in Myanmar.
- 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 moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.
- The first feature documentary dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine.
- High on the Tibetan Plateau, the old way of life is on the decline. We follow the nomads of Ritoma as they navigate the collision of tradition and modernity.
- In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? After the boy passes several tests, Tenzin takes him to meet the Dalai Lama. Will the parents agree to let the boy go to the monastery, and, if so, how will the child respond? Central to the film is the relationship the child develops with Tenzin.
- A group of Tibetans make a 1200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lasa.
- 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.
- PAD YATRA: A Green Odyssey is the adventure of 700 people trekking across the Himalayas with a call to save the planet's "3rd pole," a glacial region now devastated by the climate chaos associated with global warming. Battling the most treacherous terrain on the planet, the trekkers spread their message of ecological compassion through human's most basic means -by walking on foot, village to village, and showing by example. Surviving harrowing injuries, illness, and starvation, they emerge with nearly half a ton of plastic litter strapped to their backs, triggering an historic green revolution across the rooftop of the world.
- 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.