''Bringing Tibet Home'' (in Tibetan: ཕ་ས་བུ་ཐུག in Korean: 아버지의 땅 in Chinese: 夢土) is a 2013 documentary film produced and directed by Tibetan filmmaker
Tenzin Tsetan Choklay about Tibetan contemporary Artist
Tenzing Rigdol's art piece "Our Land Our people". The film premiered at the 2013
Busan International Film Festival
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in South Korea. This is a
Tibetan-language film.
Director Tenzin Tsetan Choklay won the 2014 Prix du Jury des jeunes Européens for the film Bringing Tibet Home at the 27th FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz, France.
The film was invited to a number International film festivals and in Brisbane, Australia at the 22nd
Brisbane International Film Festival
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it received standing ovation from the audience.
Description
In 2011, New York-based Tibetan artist and activist
Tenzing Rigdol helped thousands of his countrymen living in exile to temporarily return home. Inspired by his inability to fulfill his dying father's final wish to once again visit his homeland, Rigdol risked incarceration to smuggle 20,000 kg of Tibetan soil from
Tibet
Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Taman ...
through the Himalayas to
Dharamshala
Dharamshala (; also spelled Dharamsala) is the winter capital of Himachal Pradesh, India. It serves as administrative headquarters of the Kangra district after being relocated from Kangra, a city located away from Dharamshala, in 1855.
The ...
, in India. With it, he created an unprecedented interactive installation, Our Land, Our People, to literally bring Tibet closer to its people. Filmmaker
Tenzin Tsetan Choklay documented the entirety of Rigdol's ambitious project, creating an extraordinary documentary - one that is both a moving portrait of a dispossessed people and an inspiring tribute to the transformative power of art.
Awards and Nomination
Winner: Prix du Jury des jeunes Européens - 27th FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2014
Nominated: FIPA d'or Grand reportage et Investigation - - 27th FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2014
Nominated: Jury Award San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2014
Nominated: Competition Mecenat Award Busan International Film Festival 2013
Busan to screen 13 Indian films
DearCinema.com 6 September 2013
See also
* Tibetan-language film
References
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External links
Official website
Bringing Tibet Home
IMDb
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Documentary films about Tibet
Tibetan art
Documentary films about visual artists
2013 films
2013 documentary films
Tibetan-language films