Dreaming Lhasa (movie)
- User score: 4.9
- Production country: India, United Kingdom
- Producer: Tenzing Sonam , Ritu Sarin
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Budget: $500,000
- Revenue: $21,504
- Release date: 4/13/2007
- Run time: 90 min.
Movie description
Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but is also escaping a deteriorating relationship back home.One of Karma's interviewees is Dhondup, an enigmatic ex-monk who has just escaped from Tibet. He confides in her that his real reason for coming to India is to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, to deliver a charm box to a long-missing resistance fighter. Karma finds herself unwittingly falling in love with Dhondup even as she is sucked into the passion of his quest, which becomes a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery
