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Orphans of Tibet
Title
Orphans of Tibet.
Published
Paris : ZED, 2010.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (46 min.).
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Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
This edition in English and Tibeto-Burman with English subtitles.
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Summary
Each year, groups of Tibetan children secretly flee their homeland over the Himalayas to reach schools in India founded by the government in exile. Entrusted to smugglers, they are risking their lives by illegally crossing the great Himalayan range, a towering rampart between Tibet and India. The director will take us in the Mussorie school, in North India, where two thousand four hundred children have been rescued. They have left behind their family childhood and are now considered as orphans. We will discover the itineraries of Sonam, aged nine, and Dholma, the little new girl of the school. Here in India, they are taught about Tibetan culture and will find out about the history of their country and their ancestors. Sonam and Dholma's story is that of thousands of Tibetan children. Are they orphans of a lost country or bearers of hope who will save an endangered culture?
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Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2019
Series
Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Subjects
Genre/Form
Encoded moving images.
Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
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