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The Silent Holy Stones is a chinois film of genre Drama directed by Pema Tseden
The Silent Holy Stones (2005)
Lhing vjags kyi ma ni rdo vbum
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Add to a movie listLe Silence des pierres sacrées (Wylie : Lhing vjags kyi ma ni rdo vbum) est un film de Pema Tseden et le premier film contemporain écrit, filmé, réalisé et produit par des Tibétains. Le film évoque le risque de disparition progressif de la culture tibétaine.
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Dans le temple bouddhiste d’un petit village du Tibet, à l'époque du Nouvel An tibétain, un jeune moine se prépare à passer quelques jours en famille où il découvre avec surprise un poste de télévision...Comments
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Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Rating68%
Tharlo, un berger âgé d'environ 40 ans, a une telle mémoire qu'il peut réciter Le petit livre rouge. Il vit de l'élevage de centaines de moutons dans les montagnes du Tibet. Quand il se déplace à la ville pour faire établir une carte d'identité, sa vie bascule. Sa plus grande ambition est de venir en aide aux autres mais son idéal va s'effondrer à son arrivée en ville où il rencontre une jeune fille.
Jinpa (2019)
, 1h26Directed by Pema Tseden
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Themes Films about Tibet
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The Search (2009)
Directed by Pema Tseden
Origin Chine
Themes Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
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, 2h3Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Actors Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Chris Isaak, Jo Champa, Bhisham Sahni, Anupam Shyam Saikia
Rating61%
Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu (Ruocheng Ying), are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje (Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen). Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate for the child in whom Lama Dorje is reborn: an American boy named Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger), the young son of an architect and a teacher who live in Seattle. The monks come to Seattle in order to meet the boy.
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, 2h14Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Actors Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Kim Chan, Ken Leung
Rating69%
The film has a straightforward chronology with events spanning from 1937 to 1959; the setting is Tibet, except for brief sequences in China and India. It begins with the search for the 14th mindstream emanation of the Dalai Lama. After a vision by Reting Rinpoche (the regent of Tibet) several lamas disguised as servants discover a promising candidate: a child born to a farming family in the province of Amdo, near the Chinese border.
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Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about Buddhism, Road movies
Actors Neten Chokling
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, 2h25Origin German
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Actors Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Jampa Kalsang Tamang
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Tashi (Shawn Ku) began his training as a Buddhist monk at the age of five. Twenty years later, he emerges from a three year solitary meditation, for which he is awarded the degree of khenpo by the rinpoche. When Tashi begins to have wet dreams his relationships at the temple become strained. On an official visit, he stays with a farmer and meets Pema, the farmer's daughter. He leaves monastic life, returning to the farm, where he joins the migrant workers for the harvest. After another encounter with Pema, they marry. They later have a son, Karma(Tenzin Tashi).
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Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Actors Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako Iwamatsu, Danny Denzongpa, Victor Wong
Rating71%
Austrian mountaineers Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) and Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are part of a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in British India (present-day Pakistan). When World War II begins in 1939, they are arrested by British Indian authorities and imprisoned in a POW camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the present-day Indian state of Uttarakhand. Harrer's pregnant wife, Ingrid, sends him divorce papers from Austria.
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, 2h35Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
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Rating68%
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, 1h30Directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Tibet, Films about Buddhism
Actors Jampa Kalsang Tamang
Rating63%
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