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Dreaming Lhasa (2007)
Directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam
Overview
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
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Jampa Kalsang Tamang | Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso | Tenzin Jigme | Phuntsok Namgyal Dumkhang | Tsering Topgyal Phurpatsang | Tenzin Wangdrak | Lobsang Choedon | Sonam Phuntsok | Tsering Ngodup | Jampa Choephell | Tsultrim Dolma | Sonam Wangdu | Lobsang Wangyal | Ngawang Lodoe | Tashi Dolma Rubling | Tshering Dorji | Tsering Dorjee Bawa | Sherab Sangpo | Annie Thomas | Maria Ricciuti | Tempa Dhonden | Tashi Dorjee | Tenzin Jugney | Tenzin Rabga | Tenzin Nyishey | Suman Kumar | Khenrab | Sandeep Dhingra | Sarah Cunningham | Nyima Namdol | Tenzin Jamyang | Tenzin Ingsel | Tenzin Gyaltsen | Suman Kumari | Manish Kumar | Ani Ngawang Jampa | Gyaltsen Pelsang | Ani Tenzin Choedon | Phuntsok Wangchuk