Series Details
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This film explores the lives of Tibetan exiles in Paris, dreaming, planning, reflecting alone and with each other at a coffee house called Royal Cafe. One of the few Tibetan women filmmakers, Tenzin Dazel’s characters are “far from the usual Tibetan stereotypes and reveals them as simply men and women all married by their own desires, disappointments, and loneliness.”
Location
The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027
About The Event
Post-screening discussant: Debashree Mukherjee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, and the Center for Comparative Media, Columbia University
Written and directed by Tenzin Dazel, one of the few Tibetan women filmmakers working today, this film explores the lives of Tibetan exiles in Paris, dreaming, planning, reflecting alone and with each other at a coffee house called Royal Cafe. One of the few Tibetan women filmmakers, Tenzin Dazel’s characters are “far from the usual Tibetan stereotypes and reveals them as simply men and women all married by their own desires, disappointments, and loneliness.”
Filmmaker bio: Tenzin Dazel was born in India & schooled in TCV, Upper Dharamsala. She obtained her Masters in Fashion in Paris – Institute Français de la Mode & worked as a designer for a few major brands. She made her first short film Seeds in 2009, followed by her longer short film Royal Cafe in 2016. She is right now working on her first feature film, Dharamsala.
Tenzin Dazel will offer a “sneak peek” of her forthcoming feature film, Dharamsala, and discuss the special challenges and opportunities of filmmaking in Tibetan diaspora communities and locations.
For more information, please visit the event website.
Image: Film still from Royal Cafe / courtesy of Lenfest Center for the Arts