Paths of the Soul (2015)

Original title

གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ

Directed by

Zhang Yang

Genre

art film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

ALL

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Tibetan villagers travel 1,200 kilometers on a pilgrimage to Lhasa. The film follows their journey.

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What happens

Paths of the Soul (Chinese: 冈仁波齐Standard Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, gangs rin po che) is a 2015 Chinese film directed, written, and produced by Zhang Yang. It tells of a journey taken by Tibetan villagers on a 1,200 kilometer pilgrimage to Lhasa. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently presented at the 2015 Busan International Film Festival, 2016 Vilnius International Film Festival, 2016 Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2016 Goteborg International Film Festival, 2016 Rotterdam International Film Festival, and the 2016 Seattle International Film Festival, among others. The film was given a limited release in North America on 13 May 2016. It was also shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from 13 to 19 May 2016. The film was released in China on 20 June 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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