Screening-debate: "Tenzin" by Michael LeBlanc and Joshua Reichmann
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As part of the "South Asia and the Himalayas in pictures and debate" series.
As part of the "South Asia and the Himalayas in pictures and debate" series.
Session 6 - Tibet under debate: "Tibetan immolations"
Tenzin by Michael LeBlanc and Joshua Reichmann, 2021, 1h14, Original version with English subtitles.
This first Tibetan-language film made in Canada tells the story of Tenzin (Tenzin Kelsang), a young Tibetan from Toronto who struggles to come to terms with the death by self-immolation of his older brother - an act of non-violent protest against the treatment meted out to Tibetans living in Chinese-occupied Tibet. Vellious and insecure, Tenzin leads a double life, divided between Western youth culture (clubbing, low wages, etc.) and the Buddhist community of his fellow Tibetans in exile, to which he is reluctant to devote himself.
Debate:
- Françoise Robin (Professor, Inalco, specialist in Tibet)
- Anne-Sophie Bentz (Associate Professor, Université Paris Cité / CESSMA, specialist in South Asia)
