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Tibet Film and Cultural Festivals

Tibet 2000: Survival of the Spirit
India International Centre, New Delhi
21-31 March 2000

In March 2000, White Crane Films in collaboration with the Tibet Multimedia Centre, Dharamsala, and the Tibet Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre, New Delhi, organized Tibet 2000: Survival of the Spirit, a ten-day festival at the India International Centre in New Delhi. This was the first major cultural festival of its kind held in the Indian capital and included film screenings, photographic exhibitions, the creation of a sand mandala, performances by the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, seminars and panel discussions by well-known writers and scholars, and a public talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, which drew a packed audience. Several films were premiered at the festival, including Martin Scorsese's Kundun and Eric Valli's Himalaya/Caravan.

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Tibet Film Festival
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
March 1992

In March 1992, Ritu and Tenzing organized, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, a festival of Tibet films. The festival, the first of its kind in the UK, was a great success and included a range of films that had never been screened before in London.