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Director: Alex Gabbay
Nepal (2002)
Audio: Tibetan
Subtitles: Japanese
40 min.

What makes a nomad? Is it his land, his herd or is it just his heart? What if his
land is fenced, his movements restricted? What if he has to live in town? Can
he still be a nomad? What happens to his land? His herd? His heart?

Through the story of Choegatar, a 30-year old nomad living in North Eastern
China, "A Man Called Nomad" explores the dilemmas of a modern nomad
caught between traditional nomadic life and the changing world around him.

The Jury of the "Museum of Uses and Customs of the Trentino People" prize
awarded the prize to the film: "A MAN CALLED NOMAD" by Alex Gabbay
(Nepal/China) which, with meticulous field work and participant observation,
transcends the colourful portrayal of an ethnographic documentation to draw
close to the real existential context of attachments, uncertainties and difficulties,
and also the positive sentiment of living, within the family circle surrounding "a
man called nomad" in a framework of epoch-making transformations.

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