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Yoga Noga Reyoga; The Enlightenment Competition
UK/ 5 min / Dir: Kengo Kurimoto / Animation / 2006 / Australian Premiere
Two young monks meditate, in the search for greater Cosmic Union. However, in their quest, they become increasingly aware of the others' activities, before they know it, they are embroiled in an all out Enlightenment Competition.
Best Animation Nominee.
Fate of the Lhapa
USA / 69 min / Dir: Sarah Sifers / Documentary / 2007 / Australian Premiere
The last three Tibetan shamans (Lhapas) live in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. With no other descendants to carry on their healing practices and a younger generation modernising, these ‘sucking doctors’ are practicing an endangered tradition. Each Lhapa requested that their story be filmed so that an historical record would be created. Their fear was that the next heir might not appear until after their deaths. Subsequently, the documentary could be used to transmit the knowledge to the next generation. Tales of nomadic childhoods, shamanic callings and apprenticeships, cosmologies of disease and treatments, and of their flight from Tibet during the Chinese occupation in the late 1950s are juxtaposed with images of present-day life in the camp. This is a touching portrayal of life in exile in a refugee camp in Nepal.
Intermission
Year Of The Underdog
India / 88 min / Dir: Graeme McNab / Documentary / 2008 / World Premiere
A year in the life of the Tibetan freedom struggle and a week in the life of twenty-three Indian-born Tibetan students cycling across India to protest the award of the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing. With an emphasis on the efforts being made to keep the Tibetan issue alive in the lead up to the Beijing Olympics, This is a film about youth, pride, patriotism and dirty politics, all set against the backdrop of a crazy place called India.
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