Himachal to host Tibetan Film Festival on 50 Years in Exile

June 5, 2009 | Filed under: Latest,Tibet News | Posted by:

tibet1Dharamshala: The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in collaboration with Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, will organise a Tibetan film festival in Dharamshala starting 12 June, to commemorate 50 Years in Exile.

The festival will be held at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala in Himachal. The movies will be shown free of charges.

The festival will screen 17 different Tibetan films including ‘The message of the Tibetans’ to ‘Dreaming of Tibet’. The festival will also be showing spiritual movies like ‘ Mystic Tibet: An outer, inner, and secret pilgrimage’
Kesang Yangkyi Takla, Kalon for the Department of Information and International Relations will inaugurate the film festival.The festival will last on 14 June.

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  • Sean OLeary

    The idea of Tibetans being in “exile” is nonsense except to the degree that the exile is self-imposed. Tibet is both extremely technologically-backward and feudal, and the monks which essentially ruled Tibet in a theocracy before China took over had no intention of changing the back-breaking regime of the peasant-serfs.

    China is developing Tibet and this is a good thing – indeed, it is necessary. To talk about “respect for culture” in this context is absurd when the “traditional” culture is both backward and inhuman by the moral and technological standards reached by human civilisation.

    Every square mile of the planet should be raised to a technological standard in which nuclear energy, clean water, high-speed rail and reliable telecommunications are available. Perhaps China should be doing even more to advance these causes in Tibet as well as in China itself. The same can be said for all nations.

    No nation on earth is suffciently developed and many are going backwards, including Western Europe, the USA and Australia. Yes China has done some wrong, but so have all nations. On balance, China’s intention and general policy toward Tibet are correct.

    Criticisms of China’s policy in Tibet including by the Dalai Lama are often simply promoting the policy of the *British Empire* in keeping Tibet – and, indeed, every nation on earth – backward and engaged in pointless chaos.