Ritoma (2018)

Directed by

Ruby Yang

Genre

documentary

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

57 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a group of Tibetan nomads who love basketball. It shows how they try to keep their traditional ways while facing poverty and modern change.

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What happens

Ritoma (traditional Chinese:仁多瑪; Simplified Chinese:仁多玛) is a documentary film directed, edited and produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang. It features Tibetan nomads who are passionate about basketball. This film mainly explores how Tibetans preserve their disappearing nomadic culture whilst cope with new challenges through basketball. Alongside with poverty issue and modernization. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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