Showtime: Sunday, January 15 @ 1:00pm
Director: Marianne Chaud
Original Title: Himalaya, le chemin du ciel
Country: France/Tibet, 2008
Language: Tibetan with English subtitles
Film Length: 65 minutes
Even without her utterly compelling and unusual subject, director Marianne Chaud's documentary would be breathtaking. She spent months in one of the most remote spots on Earth, the Phuktal Buddhist monastery that is built, literally, into the stone walls atop a 13,000-foot mountain in Tibet. Chaud mostly trains her camera on 8-year-old Kenrap, a cheerful "grandfather monk" who has been studying the religion since he was 5. A delightful child, often wise beyond his years, Kenrap leads us on a tour of a world so far beyond the modernized West that it can seem more fiction than reality. It is inspiring to witness people so contentedly living a medieval lifestyle. And even monks will be kids sometimes, so Kenrap and his young friends find time for play—which sometimes involves cavorting along narrow, icy paths hundreds of feet above a river. —Dave Nuttycombe
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