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Tharlo

OT: Tharlo

Pema Tseden // People's Republic of China, 2015
Fiction Feature // FF2016

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Story

Tharlo is a local curiosity: he has no real idea how old he is, but has a prodigious memory and can recite endless passages from the works of Mao. He lives as a goat herdsman in simple circumstances in the vast expanses of the Tibetan mountains and has an equally simple view of life’s great moral questions. For Tharlo, there is right or wrong, black or white. Grey? No. His clear-cut view of the world starts to falter when he meets a young hairdresser who wants to get away from her grey environment: to Lhasa, maybe even to Peking. Tharlo’s inner struggle reflects the conflict in today’s Tibet, which is fighting for its identity in the modern world after six decades as part of the Chinese state federation.

Director

Pema Tseden (*1969) is a Tibetan author and his country'sbest-known contemporary film-maker. Despitethe critical approach of his films and their emphasis on the independence ofTibetan culture, he has managed to realize most of them with the approval ofthe Chinese authorities. Tharlo haswon prizes at numerous international festivals.

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Tharlo

Fiction Feature

Tibetan

Asia Express//FF2016


People's Republic of China

2015

123 min

OV with English subtitles

Pema Tseden

Pema Tseden

Shide Nyima, Yangshik Tso

Gao Hong, Xu Li, Sun Jialin

Lu Songye

Gregorius Arya, Song Bing

Wang Jue

Heaven Pictures Culture and Media Co. Ltd.; Beijing Ocean and Time Culture Communication Co. Ltd.; Beijing YiHe Star Film Production Ltd.; New Heaven Picture (Beijing) Culture and Media Co. Ltd.

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