Ravenna Festival d’essai Focus on Tibet The dramatic historical, political and cultural identity issues of the Tibetan diaspora will be documented and reflected upon in a series of four documentaries and a feature film made over the last 15 years by independent filmmakers Ritu Sarin (India) and Tenzing Sonam (Tibet), screened alongside the Scorsese “classic”, [...]
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Mud Stone Slate Bamboo & the Engadin Art Talks
Mud Stone Slate Bamboo (excerpt) from White Crane Films on Vimeo. The picture postcard Romansh village of Zuoz, high in the Swiss Alps was the unlikely venue of the Engadin Art Talks, which was held on the weekend of 27th August. We were here at the invitation of Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Co-Director of London’s [...]
Return to Kalmykia
In 1991, Ritu and I had the exceptional good fortune of being able to travel with the Dalai Lama as he visited the Soviet Buddhist regions of Buryatia, Kalmykia and Aginsky. Our job was to document this historic visit on video. We were part of a small and intimate entourage, crisscrossing the Soviet empire in [...]
When Hari Got Married Trailer
When Hari Got Married (Trailer 3 mins 17 secs) from White Crane Films on Vimeo.
Engadin Art Talks, Switzerland
We will be participating in the Engadin Art Talks later this month in the Alpine town of Zuoz in Switzerland. E.A.T. was initiated by Cristina Bechtler, and is led by Beatrix Ruf, director and curator of the Kunsthalle Zurich, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of the Serpentine Gallery London. The topic of this year’s talks [...]
When Hari Got Married update
We have completed our final shoot and have also finished logging and assembling footage. Now to begin editing in earnest. Meanwhile, we have received confirmation that When Hari Got Married will receive funding from the Jan Vrijman Fund in The Netherlands and ITVS International. These are both highly competitive awards and we’re thrilled to have [...]
Retrospective of eight of our films in Prague, 14 & 15 April 2011
Our friends at Potala in Prague are organizing a festival of Tibetan films – Tibet Flim Fest – from 13 to 15 April at the Kino Aero in Prague. A retrospective of eight of our films will be showcased as part of the festival. This will include the first ever theatrical screening of our video [...]
Screenings of our films in Jakarta
Four of our films – The Sun Behind the Clouds, Dreaming Lhasa, The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche and A Stranger in My Native Land – will screen in Jakarta as part of Festival Film Tibet. Famvir
Our new film project: When Hari Got Married
At the end of last year, we finally managed to spend some time at our home in Sidhpur near Dharamsala. We were looking forward to some rest and quiet time after things finally started to wind down on The Sun Behind the Clouds. But this was not to be. We suddenly found ourselves in the [...]
Miranda House Excellence & Achievement Award to Ritu
Ritu’s alma mater, Miranda House, Delhi University, is awarding her its annual Excellence and Achievement Award for her work as a filmmaker. The award ceremony will be held at the Miranda House auditorium on 19 February at 10:15 am. It will be followed by a screening of The Sun Behind the Clouds. In conjunction with [...]