Ritu Sarin
2021The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche
Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
Choenzey is a 47-year-old monk living in a Tibetan refugee monastery in South India. His spiritual master, Khensur Rinpoche, a revered high lama, has been dead for four years. According to Tibetan belief, he will soon be reincarnated. It is Choenzey's responsibility, as his closest disciple, to find the reincarnation and to look after him. The film follows Choenzey's search and his eventual discovery of an impish but gentle 4-year-old boy who is recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan State Oracle to be the reincarnation. Without sentimentality, the film captures the moving relationship that develops between the erstwhile disciple and his young master. (columbia.edu)
The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche
The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
Tenzin Gyatso
Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?
The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
སྐྱོ་དབྱངས་མངར་མོ།
Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
Tenzin Dolker, Jampa Kalsang Tamang
Dolkar is a 26-year-old living in exile in Delhi. An unexpected encounter with a figure from her past sets off a flurry of memories she had long repressed regarding the journey that brought her here.
The Sweet Requiem
Dreaming Lhasa
Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
Tenzin Gyatso, Tenzin Jigme
Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but is also escaping a deteriorating relationship back home.One of Karma's interviewees is Dhondup, an enigmatic ex-monk who has just escaped from Tibet. He confides in her that his real reason for coming to India is to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, to deliver a charm box to a long-missing resistance fighter. Karma finds herself unwittingly falling in love with Dhondup even as she is sucked into the passion of his quest, which becomes a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery
Dreaming Lhasa
A Stranger in My Native Land
Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
Tenzing Sonam
The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.
A Stranger in My Native Land
The Thread of Karma
Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
An intimate look at the life of a young lama as he aspires to live up to the reputation of his former incarnation. It also explores his moving relationship with the two people closest to him, his attendant and his spiritual master, both of whom were connected to him in his previous life.
The Thread of Karma
Drapchi Elegy
Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin
Namdol Lhamo
A portrait of Namdol Lhamo, a middle-aged Tibetan woman who lives in Brussels and works as a housekeeper in an old people's home. Lhamo is one of the famous Drapchi 14, a group of nuns imprisoned in the notorious Drapchi prison of Lhasa in the early 1990s for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation.
Drapchi Elegy