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Leaving Fear Behind, also known as Leaving Fear behind: I Won't Regret to Die (in Tibetan language Jigdrel), is a documentary movie from Dhondup Wangchen and Jigme Gyatso about communist Chinese repression of Tibet. It was premiered in 2008 in the year when the 2008 Summer Olympics took place in Beijing, China.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 2012 "Dolma" A Tibetan Short Film: Jim Sanjay: Children Film: 1997: Seven Years in Tibet: Jean-Jacques Annaud: Drama: Kundun
Pawo (Hero) is a 2016 Tibetan-language film by Marvin Litwak and Sonam Tseten, set in McLeod Ganj, chronicling the life of a young Tibetan refugee boy in India after escaping over Himalayas in search of freedom. [1] [2] The film is loosely based on late Jamphel Yeshi who self-immolated in protest against human right violations in Tibet. [3]
A Tibetan-language film is a motion picture where the Tibetan language is spoken significantly. Some Tibetan language films include " Tharlo " and Old Dog , directed by Pema Tseden , China's first director to make films entirely in the Tibetan language, Pawo (2016) , directed by Marvin Litwak, and "River"(2015), by Sonthar Gyal [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The film celebrates traditional Tibetan folk music while depicting the past fifty years of Chinese rule in Tibet, including Ngawang's experience as a political prisoner. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, [2] [3] where it won the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema. It opened in theatres on September 24, 2010 in New York City.
Since the Chinese invaded Tibet, which has a population of 6 million, in the wake of the Communist Revolution more than half a century ago, an estimated 1.2 million Tibetans have died in the course of a brutal occupation, and approximately 3,000 people risk their lives every year hiking over the Himalayas to escape." [3]
Tharlo (Chinese: 塔洛) is a 2015 Chinese Tibetan-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Pema Tseden. [3] It premiered in the Horizons section at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival. [5] It was released in China on December 9, 2016, and on DVD by Icarus Films on February 14, 2017. [4]
So Johanna is asked by the monks to refuge Tempa and other child refugees to their destination, the Tibetan capital Lhasa. Problems with the Chinese authorities occur, and Johanna decides to support Tashi, a refugee helpers, and to bring a group of children and Dolma, a widowed Tibetan woman, through the Chinese border controls to the Dalai ...