Follows three young Tibetans faced with moral dilemmas: a rising pop star asked by her Chinese official boyfriend to sing pro-government songs; her brother, an embittered drunk; and their cousin, a Buddhist nun savagely beaten after shouting anti-Chinese slogans.

A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations ...

Horia Colibasanu is a dentist, father of two boys and elite climber. In 2008, he refused to abandon,...

Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in...

Jason Lu, a Hongkonger living in LA, works a shift at a restaurant and finds himself in a bizarre si...

Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhol...

A young Vietnamese peasant girl named Mui becomes the educated wife of a pianist in 1950s Saigon and...

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grai...

They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the worl...

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himal...

A tragic expedition to the Himalayas, told by the great mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who lost his b...
The Himalayan mountain Makalu, located in Nepal, is the fifth highest mountain in the world. In 1973...

A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors, and his memories o...

Set in ancient Tibet under the shadow of the Himalayas, the young prince Lhamoklodan learns of his f...

In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen ...

Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a hig...

Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him ince...

Phai is an innocent boy who has been forced to be a monk, with the hope that this would help the ven...

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds...

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his lo...