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Tharlo

  • Dir: Pema Tseden

  • 2015, Tibetan/Putonghua, 124mins, DCP

  • Cast: Shide Nyima, Yangshik Tso, Tashi, Jinpa

Shot in stark, stunning monochrome, this quietly devastating story of a simple-hearted shepherd is a rich allegory for a nation torn between past and future. Tharlo or Ponytail, as he is called, finds the certainties of his austere, isolated existence of herding sheep in the mountains called into question, when he is forced into the townscape by the bureaucratic modernisation: the photo identity card. In his odyssey under long, meditative takes, he encounters karaoke and chaos, political doubletalk and a young, modern Tibetan woman barber, who changes his appearance and his life.

Golden Horse Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

Tokyo FILMeX: Grand Prize

20/8 (Sun): Guest filmmakers Jigme Trinley and Dukar Tserang will attend the screening

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

    • Full House2023-08-20 (Sun)
      19:00
      20AC03
      Full House2023-08-27 (Sun)
      16:30
      27MC01

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    • Financially Supported by

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.