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Tibetan-language Film
A Tibetan-language film is a motion picture where the Tibetan language is spoken significantly. Some Tibetan language films include "Tharlo" and ''Old Dog'', directed by Pema Tseden Pema Tseden (), also called Wanma Tsaidan (; born December 1969), is a Tibetan film director and screenwriter of Chinese citizenship. He is a member of the China Film Directors' Guild, China Film Association and Chinese Film Literature Associatio ..., China's first director to make films entirely in the Tibetan language, Pawo (2016), directed by Marvin Litwak, and "River"(2015), by Sonthar Gyal References See also List of Tibetan films Tibetan-language films {{Film-term-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" classification of Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan). In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are able to communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers cannot. Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan. Registers Like many languages, Lhasa Tibetan has a variety of language registers: * ( Wylie: , literally " demotic language"): the vernacular speech. * ( Wylie: , " honorifics or deference, courtesy"): the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tharlo
''Tharlo'' ( zh, 塔洛) is a 2015 Chinese Tibetan-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Pema Tseden. It premiered in the Horizons section at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h .... It was released in China on December 9, 2016. Plot Sheep herder Tharlo (Shide Nyima) or commonly known as "Ponytail" for his trademark hairstyle, goes to town to get an ID card photo as ordered by police chief Dorje (Tashi). Having lived all his life alone in the mountains, he is shocked to meet a modern young hairdresser Yangtso (Yang Shik Tso), who not only sports short hair but smokes. Yangtso flirts and even suggests travelling plans with him. Tharlo returns to the mountain but not for long. One day, due to his carelessness, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pema Tseden
Pema Tseden (), also called Wanma Tsaidan (; born December 1969), is a Tibetan film director and screenwriter of Chinese citizenship. He is a member of the China Film Directors' Guild, China Film Association and Chinese Film Literature Association. Biography Early life and education Pema Tseden was born into a pastoral family, in Guide County, Qinghai, in December 1969, during the Cultural Revolution. He is the only one of three siblings to have finished school. He graduated from Northwest University for Nationalities, where he majored in Tibetan Language and Literature. After graduation, he worked as a primary school teacher and a civil servant. Then he pursued advanced studies at China's most prestigious film school, Beijing Film Academy, where he became the Academy's first-ever Tibetan student. Career Pema Tseden's debut work, '' The Silent Holy Stones'', won the Best Directorial Debut at the 25th Golden Rooster Awards, Asian New Talent Award for Best Director at the 9th S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pawo (film)
Pawo (Hero) is a 2016 Tibetan-language film by Marvin Litwak and Sonam Tseten, set in McLeod Ganj, chronicling the life of a young Tibetan refugee boy in India after escaping over Himalayas in search of freedom. The film is loosely based on late Jamphel Yeshi who self-immolated in protest against human right violations in Tibet. Pawo was premiered in India in Dharamsala on 7th Tibet Film Festival (TFF).The festival was attended by the Tibetan exile prime minister Lobsang Sangay. Background Since 1950, Tibet has been occupied by China. Dorjee, a young Tibetan, grew up in peace 40 years later. After the death of his father, it all comes to a point, where he realizes that his wings are already cut, what it means to be Tibetan in a country which is called "China". Inside Tibet and in exile, a last cry for freedom starts. The narrative of the film is typical of many Tibetan refugees who annually flee persecution from Chinese authorities and pull a precarious existence of limbo in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonthar Gyal
Sonthar Gyal (born 1974) is a Tibetan film director in People's Republic of China. His films include '' The Sun Beaten Path'' (2011) and ''River'' (2015). Biography Sonthar Gyal was born in Tongde County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai. His father was a primary school teacher who was the first person to graduate from college in the region. Sonthar Gyal studied at the Tsolho Nationalities Teacher Training College in Hainan (Tsolho) Prefecture and taught in the nomadic community for four years. Afterwards he received a scholarship to study fine arts at the Qinghai Normal University in Xining. After graduating in 2003 with a B.A. in Fine Arts, he worked as an art teacher and a curator at the Tongde Cultural Museum. Although he grew up on the grassland with very few opportunities to watch films (and the ones he watched were in Chinese) he became so fascinated by films that he began to collect scraps of films after each open-air showing. Later, encouraged by his friend P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tibetan-language Films
A list of films produced in Tibetan. {, class="wikitable" width= "100%" , - ! width=21% , Title ! width=16% , Director ! width=22% , Cast ! width=13% , Genre ! width=28% , Notes , , , , , , , , , , - , , 2012 , - , '' "Dolma" A Tibetan Short Film'', , Jim Sanjay , , , , Children Film , , , - , , 1997 , - , ''Seven Years in Tibet'', , Jean-Jacques Annaud , , , , Drama , , , - , ''Kundun'', , Martin Scorsese , , , , Drama, , , - , , 1999 , - , '' The Cup'', , Khyentse Norbu , , , , , , , - , ''Himalaya'', , Eric Valli, , , , , , , - , , 2000 , - , '' Yeshe Dolma'' , , Fei Xie , , , , Drama, , , - , , 2001 , - , , , Samsara , , , , Nalin Pan, , , - , , 2002 , - , , - , , 2003 , - , ''Travelers and Magicians'', , Khyentse Norbu , , , , , , , - , , 2004 , - , '' Kekexili: Mountain Patrol'', , Lu Chuan , , , , , , , - , , 2005 , - , ''Dreaming Lhasa'', , Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam , , , , , , , - , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
