Dreaming Lhasa
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Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but is also escaping a deteriorating relationship back home.
One of Karma's interviewees is Dhondup, an enigmatic ex-monk who has just escaped from Tibet. He confides in her that his real reason for coming to India is to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, to deliver a charm box to a long-missing resistance fighter. Karma finds herself unwittingly falling in love with Dhondup even as she is sucked into the passion of his quest, which becomes a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.
India/UK, 2005 1:1.85, 35mm, 90 minutes, Tibetan/English
[edit] View from Nowhere
Having just returned from Tibet, everyone asks me about it: How was it? etc... I was at a bit of a loss to communicate the experience, it was so intense and challenging: lamas, nuns, monasteries, trekking, monsoons that wouldn't leave, mud, yak and pig shit, and on and on. Then 3 days after I arrived back to Houston, I happened to see Dreaming Lhasa, and now I tell whoever asks me about my trip to see this film. Not only do you visit the Tibetan communities, and have the look and feel of Tibet, but more important the particular quest rendered in the film, and the unexpected consequence of its fulfillment, convey the particular and peculiar magic of the place.
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