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Film Festival showcases Award Winning International Films from India, Nepal, France
and Australia MINNEAPOLIS -- The Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota is sponsoring the third Tibetan Film Festival on March 5-11. Co-Sponsored by Minnesota Film Arts, the festival will take place at the Bell Auditorium, at 17th and University avenues SE. The festival will include feature films and documentaries dealing with the history and culture of Tibet, Tibetan Medicine, Tibetan Women's Issues, and films about His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who visited the Twin Cities in 2001. The festival will open at 7 p.m. Friday, March 5, with the first Minnesota screening of Dreaming of Tibet, which explores the cultural challenges faced by Tibetans living in exile. The film is narrated by Peter Coyote and includes appearances by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, actors Richard Gere and Goldie Hawn and author/climber Jon Krakauer. A gala reception will follow the film with Tibetan performances and special guests in the Northrop Atrium. The festival will include films on Tibetan culture, as well as Tibetan medicine. The film The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore, a documentary about a reincarnate Tibetan Lama who heals using a strange combination of tantric and allopathic methods in his monastery in Darjeeling. It will be shown at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 6, followed by a panel discussion with a traditional Tibetan doctor and other panelists. Other films that will be shown at the festival include: Nomad's Land, story of a Tibetan nomad who also is an Englishman; Himalaya, set in Nepal and documents Tibetan villagers who live by their traditions; The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet, documents one of the CIA's longest-running covert operations, supporting Tibetans in guerrilla warfare against invading forces of Communist China; Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion, a look at the struggle of the Tibetan people for freedom; and two films about Tibetan women -- Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy, and Tibetan Women Refugees -- on Thursday, March 11, followed by a discussion of women's issues. The Minnesota Tibetan community, which had its beginning in 1992, is now the second largest in the United States. The community is committed to creating a vibrant Tibetan cultural presence in the Twin Cities and to share it with all Minnesotans. The Tibetan Film Festival is part of this effort. For further information, call the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota office at (651) 917-9556 or (651) 917-9565. |
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