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Tibet in Song

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(No longer in theaters)
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  • Director: Ngawang Choephei
  • Running Time: 90 minutes
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Genre

Documentary

Producer

Ngawang Choephel

Distributor

Tashi Sholpa Productions

Release Date

May 2, 2009

Review

The title sounds like it says it all, but there’s more to this intriguing doc than songs and Buddhism. The filmmaker, who’d spent most of his life outside Tibet, returned to document the vanishing folk songs of his Chinese-occupied land, only to find himself personally embroiled in an authoritarian nightmare.

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