A voyage to Tibet like you’ve never seen
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.
Awards & Screenings
- 30th International de Films de Femmes, Creteil, France
- 3rd Festiwal Filmy Swiata, Poland
- 10th Ethnofilmfest, Berlin
- Circle Cinema, Tulsa
- Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
- ImaginAsian Theater, New York
- Himalayan Film Festival, Amsterdam
- Austin Asian Film Festival, USA
- International Buddhist Film Festival, Amsterdam
- Munich Asia Filmfest
- Films from the South, Oslo
- Berlin Asia-Pacific Film Festival
- Independent South Asian Film Festival, Seattle
- Bite the Mango Film Festival, Bradford, UK
- Festival do Rio (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival)
- Pacific-Meridian Vladivostock International Film Festival, Russia
- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York
- 54th Trento Film Festival, Italy
- Minneapolis-St Paul International Film Festival
- Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
- Roma Independent Film Festival
- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, London
- 24th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
- 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival
- Spice PVR Cinemas, Noida, Delhi
- International Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- 12th Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, Canada
- 10th International Film Festival of Kerala
- 8th International Meeting of Cinema and History, Istanbul
- 1st Asian Festival of 1st Films, Singapore
- 2nd Amazonas Film Festival, Manaus, Brazil
- 53rd San Sebastian International Film Festival
- 30th Toronto International Film Festival