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Director: Arnold Kroigaard & Rasmus Dinesen / Denmark
(2003)
Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese
54 min.
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A story about a national football team without a nation.

On 30th of June 2001, in Copenhagen, Denmark, a framework was formed for a
historical football match; a match which FIFA and the Chinese government tried
to prevent from taking place. The agreed upon match between Tibet and
Greenland, would be the first international game ever played by Tibet. We follow
the team from their first coaching sessions in Dharamsala, India - on a craggy,
grassless pitch - to the last whistle in Copenhagen two years later.

In the film, we meet a number of colourful characters and learn about their
different opinions of the team. Despite the efforts of the Chinese government,
the match finally takes place in Copenhagen. The excitement in the stadium
is immense. The match is broadcasted directly to Tibet via “Radio Free Tibet,”
and the cheers at home are endless as Tibet scores the first goal of the game.

It’s a humorous documentary about a cultural clash, dreams coming true, and
football, as Buddha would have played it!

(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

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