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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Summary Tibet in Song is both a celebration of traditional Tibetan folk music and a harrowing journey into the past fifty years of cultural repression inside Chinese controlled Tibet. Director and former Tibetan political prisoner, Ngawang Choephel, weaves a story of beauty, pain, brutality and resilience, introducing Tibet to the world in a way...

Directed By: Ngawang Choephel

Written By: Ngawang Choephel

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Tibet in Song

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Summary Tibet in Song is both a celebration of traditional Tibetan folk music and a harrowing journey into the past fifty years of cultural repression inside Chinese controlled Tibet. Director and former Tibetan political prisoner, Ngawang Choephel, weaves a story of beauty, pain, brutality and resilience, introducing Tibet to the world in a way...

Directed By: Ngawang Choephel

Written By: Ngawang Choephel

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Choephel, who narrates the film in English, is ultimately more musicologist than filmmaker, and yet the docu's very existence is something of a miracle.
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Make no mistake about his ability to make social studies entertaining: A montage about Tibet's many supporters is set to the Beastie Boys playing "Sabotage" live.
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Though the movie is a testimony to one man's will to survive and a testament to a vanishing art form, Tibet in Song's greatest achievement may be the way it shows how China recast traditional songs as modern pro-Communist propaganda-an eradication of an invaded country's culture through insidious co-option.
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Production Company Guge Productions
Release Date Sep 24, 2010
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Never forget the music in your heart
Website http://www.tibetinsong.com/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination
Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Nomination

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