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Embassy of India

Alpine Tour Service

Director: Ron Chiers
Belgium (2006)
Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese
56 min.

Tashi Norbu (°1974) is a Tibetan painter.

He lives and works in the West (Belgium) since September 2000.

We will be following him for a day and watch him work.

He talks about the traumatic experiences of his childhood, his parents being
exiled refugees.

About Chinese occupation in Tibet. He casts a critical view on the growth of
Tibetan Buddhism in the West.

The voice of the Tibetan young generation. A controversial, artistic and spiritual
document.

* Tashi Norbu official site: www.tashinorbu.be

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

(ENVIRONMENT)
* Meltdown
* Leave Nothing but Footprints
* Turf Wars
* Timber to Tibet
(ADVENTURE)
* Riding Solo To The Top Of The
World
* A Higher Calling
* Into the Thunder Dragon
* Farther than the Eye Can See
* Trio for One
* Fatal Game
(POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS)
* Thin ice
* Chulo, Choli ra Banduk - a stove,
a blouse and a gun
* Better to Have Been Killed
* The Forbidden Team
* Jashn-e-azadhi (How We
Celebrate Freedom)
* Siachen: A war for Ice
* Tibetan Refugees: A Struggle
Beyond Generations
(POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT)
* Journey of a Red Fridge
* Hami kunako maanche –
We corner people
* A Bridge over the Himalayas
* Yi khel gi kawa
(The Price of a Letter)
* Tingvong: a Lepcha village in
Sikkim
(CULTURE)
* Angry Monk
* Miss Tibet
* Closer than Tibet
* Bhedako Oon Jasto...in search
of a song...

* A man called nomad
* Call it Karma
* Daughters of Wisdom
* Bhutan - Taking the Middle Path
to Happiness