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The Search

  • Dir: Pema Tseden

  • 2009, Tibetan, 111mins, DCP

  • Cast: Manla Kyab, Tsondrey, Lumo Tso

A tribute to the rich tapestry of Tibetan people and culture, this discursive philosophical road movie follows a filmmaker travelling from villages to cities in search of actors for his adaptation of the Tibetan opera Prince Drime Kunden, a saint who gave away all his worldly possessions. Exercising formalistic restraint with a contemplative pace and poetic long shots in a filmwithin- a-film structure, Pema Tseden takes viewers through the spectacular landscape of a changing Tibet, raising penetrating questions of what love, compassion and self-sacrifice mean in the rapidly modernising society.

Locarno International Film Festival: In Competition

19/8 (Sat): 
Seminar with Jigme Trinley and Dukar Tserang; 
Moderator: Joyce Yang
Conducted in Putonghua

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

    • Buy Ticket2023-08-19 (Sat)
      14:30
      19MC01
      Full House2023-08-25 (Fri)
      19:45
      25TS01

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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.