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Drokpa

Directed by Yan Chun Su

2016 – 79'

Synopsis

Drokpa is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of nomads on the eastern Tibetan plateau.
With rare access to a small community of nomads living on the vast yet rapidly degrading grasslands on the high plateau of eastern Tibet, Drokpa, meaning nomads and nomadic culture in Tibetan, reveals the unprecedented environmental and sociopolitical forces the nomads are facing.
Richly observed daily lives and family relationships are at once deeply personal and illustrative of the universal issues of gender, freedom, adaptation to a changing climate and the resilience of human spirits.

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RAI FILM Festival 2025

The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.