Pema Tseden

  • Pema Tseden – Qi qiu AKA Balloon (2019)

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    A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.Read More »

  • Pema Tseden – Zhuang si le yi zhi yang AKA Jinpa (2018)

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    This is a story of revenge and redemption.

    On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the truck driver notices that his new friend has a silver dagger strapped to his leg. He comes to understand that this man is out to kill someone who wronged him earlier in life. As he drops the hitchhiker off at a fork in the road, little does the truck driver realize that their short time together has changed everything, and that their destinies are inexorably intertwined.

    On the path of life, sometimes we meet someone whose dreams overtake our own to the point that they converge.Read More »

  • Pema Tseden – ‘Tsol AKA Xunzhao zhimei gengdeng AKA The Search (2009)

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    Cinema-scope.com:
    This film uses perfectly framed long takes, from a largely distant yet intimately engaged camera, to tell the story of a film crew driving around Tibet looking for actors to play in a filmed version of the opera. It wraps this quest around two concurrent love stories, and the whole becomes a masterpiece of understated emotional longing set against an urgent desire to preserve a disappearing culture.Read More »

  • Pema Tseden – Khyi rgan AKA Lao Gou AKA Old Dog (2011)

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    Summary from Icarus Films:
    A family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price.

    The Tibetan nomad mastiff is an exotic prize dog in China, fetching as much as millions of dollars from wealthy Chinese. When a young man notices several thefts of mastiffs from Tibetan farm families, he decides to sell his family’s dog before it is stolen and sold on the black market. His father, an aging Tibetan herder, is furious when he discovers their dog missing. When the father seeks to buy the dog back, it leads to a series of tragicomic events that threaten to tear the family apart, while showing the erosion of Tibetan culture under the pressures of contemporary society.Read More »

  • Pema Tseden – Tharlo (2015)

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    Synopsis:
    High in the desolate, windswept mountains of Tibet lives a shepherd named Tharlo. He tends his sheep and rides his motorcycle, passing his days in familiar and traditional routines far from the city lights. But when Tharlo travels to the city for an ID card photo and meets Yangtso, a modern young hairdresser, his monastic life will forever change.Read More »

  • Pema Tseden – Lhing vjags kyi ma ni rdo vbum AKA The Silent Holy Stones (2005)

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    From the Buddhist Film Foundation’s website:
    Pema Tseden (The Search, Old Dog) is the first Tibetan graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, and this is his dramatic feature debut. Made on location in a village in the Amdo region, the film follows a young lama assigned for Tibetan New Year to attend to the seven-year-old Living Buddha (tulku) of a mountain monastery. The young lamas try to balance their strict training with explorations of the outside world through the novelty of television, and make some surprising choices. Like all great neo-realist films, The Silent Holy Stones has the immediacy of a documentary, and Tseden delivers a compelling and intimate insider’s view of everyday life in his home town.Read More »

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