As a Tibetan director dedicated to illuminating, with love and insight, the everyday culture of your contested homeland, navigating China’s labyrinthine and often-changing filmmaking approval…
,” in premiering in the Venice Horizons sidebar before traveling on to Toronto, is a case in point — both a gorgeously intimate family drama and an idiosyncratic artistic statement flecked with humor and sorrow, but alive always to the co-existence of the banal with the spiritual.
Faith and modernity also collide when Drolkar’s sister , a Buddhist nun, goes to collect Jamyang from school one day and discovers that his bespectacled, sad-eyed teacher is the man she once loved; his perceived mistreatment was responsible for her decision to devote herself to the spiritual life.
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