Movies: Pema Tseden

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”....

This is a story about how people and animals finally get along. A snow leopard breaks into the sheep pen of a nomad and kills nine rams. Father and son then argue: the son insists on killing the snow leopard, but the father insists on releasing it....

It’s the late 1990s in a remote Tibetan forest where poaching is widespread. A ranger is visited by one man after another, all strange......

Tharlo is an orphan. Now grown up, he makes a living as a sheep herder in the village. He has grown a ponytail, so people simply call him “Ponytail”, since nobody remembers his real name anyway. Tharlo has a remarkable memory. He remembers so many th...

On the Tibetan grasslands, Darje and Drolkar live a serene and ordinary life with their three sons and the grandfather. A condom sparks a series of embarrassment and dilemma, breaking the harmony of the family. What matters more in the circle of life...

Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he’s going to kill the man who murdered his father....

A group of young Tibetan boys seek retribution against a donkey that harmed one of their own, only to encounter escalating complications....

A story of an aged sheepherder, his gruff grown son (who’s having trouble conceiving a child with his wife) and the old man’s Tibetan mastiff hound – a highly prized breed, much sought after by urban Chinese – whose existence is imperiled from all si...

A folk performer brings his animals to the streets. Two thugs' unreasonable demands make everything more absurd. The film shows a circus in a gradual "mutilation" and portrays a man struggling in his life....

Lao Kong came to work in Tibet for the first time and needed translator urgently. By chance, he found Jiumei, who had studied in the mainland. Although they didn't understand each other at first, they eventually became lifelong friends....

Meng Qin's daily life revolves around taking care of her 11-year-old son who has a rare genetic disease. Already four months pregnant, Meng Qin is both hesitant to tell her son about the pregnancy and fears for the health of the second child....

A man comes to one small Tibet town in search of a woman named Dorlma....

A young Tibetan monk goes back home for the New Year's celebrations. Fascinated by television, he wants to bring his family's television to the monastery to show it to his master....

While still in elementary school, young Tashi rescued a stray dog. But the stray dog is adopted and named Tashi, which makes Tashi the laughing stock of his classmates. So little Tashi plans to kill the dog Tashi, but accidentally hits him blind. Tas...

A filmmaker searches the Himalayas for an actor and actress to play the lead roles in his Tibetan opera....

In 2003, “SARS” quickly and fiercely spread to entire China. Everyone was afraid, staying home like their lives were stopped. Fu Zhen, a senior girl who is desperate for unrequited love, has a lively and strong, but lacks a survival instinct. A Hong ...

Two villages in Tibet have competed in archery for a thousand years. This is the story of the competition between Dradong and Nyima who each represent their village. As the story opens, Nyima has won the annual competition and is in love with Dradong...

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In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs – young Ngawang leaves behind a nomadic existence on the Tibetan plateau for big city Lhasa nightclubs. His dream is to record an album and be heard around the c...