We'll be meeting at the Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street, on 14th April (film starts at 5:50pm)
and 21st April (film starts at 6:40pm) in place of our usual meetings.
We could meet up beforehand in the foyer or the Intermezzo Coffee Bar on the ground floor and go somewhere for hot choc etc afterwards.
http://www.tynecine.org/
The Tibet Film Festival 2009 features some of the most recent
material to emerge on Tibet and was launched in March to coincide with
the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising in 1959.
Unmistaken Child (PG)
Tuesday 14 April, 5.50pm
This visually stunning and emotionally gripping documentary chronicles the search by Tenzin Zopa, a devoted disciple, for the reincarnation of his revered Tibetan Buddhist religious master, Lama Konchog, His sacred quest takes him to remote Tibetan villages in the mountains of Nepal, and as an apparent contender emerges, the film follows the young boy as he undergoes the mysterious tests that need to be passed in order to confirm the reincarnation. Unmistaken Child sheds light on a rarely filmed aspect of Tibetan Buddhism. Tickets: £4.00/£3.00 concessions.
(CONCESSION QUALIFICATION
Discounts apply to: those
receiving income support; people in full-time education; young people
aged 16 and under; senior citizens; disabled people; and City Card
holders.)
Tibet’s Cry for Freedom (PG)
Tuesday 21 April, 6.40pm
Filmed over the course of a year, from March 2007 to March 2008, this film offers an insightful account of Tibet’s history and its present, exploring in depth many of the human rights and environmental issues facing Tibet today as a result of more than 50 years of Chinese occupation. This is one of the most recent and comprehensive overviews of the Tibet issue and its current situation. Tickets: £4.00/£3.00 concessions.
Preceded by short film: A Brief History of Life
Young Tibetan filmmaker Tenzin Jangchup tells his story from growing up in exile in India to moving to Canada as a young adult.
