Tibet : When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun ★★★★★

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Seven years in the making, Dirk Simon's new documentary film, When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun, which is premiering on February 5th at the upcoming Santa Barbara Film Festival, shows an unprecedented inside perspective on the Tibetan community in exile, its young generation and their struggle to free their homeland Tibet. In full HD quality, this film reveals an internal conflict that has been dividing Tibetans and hindering their movement for decades. It also provides scenes from India, Beijing and Chinese occupied Lhasa (Tibet's capital) that have never been filmed before in such quality. Forty years after the beginning of the Chinese invasion, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama compromised in the late 80s on the idea of a free Tibet and offered China the option of a genuine autonomy instead. This adjustment in approach was the beginning of a conflict that is tearing apart Tibetans inside and outside Tibet. Link http://www.loveangeles.com/love_angeles/2010/01/when-the-dragon-swallowed-the...

Also, for the first time, the film introduces the only officially recognized descendant of the Great Religious Kings of Tibet. Continuing a 1400 year old lineage, 18 year old Lhagyari Trichen Namgyal Wangchuk was crowned by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in June 2004 in Dharamsala, India. With exclusive footage from the coronation, intimate interviews and access to the family's archive material, When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun explores the struggle of a young Tibetan King alongside the peers of his generation. It reveals for the first time how they try to reflect on their history while they redefine their identities in this new world of shifting politics and changing religious devotion.

Interview with Dirk Simon, Director/Writer/Producer, When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun
Jerry: What inspired you to make When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun?

Dirk: It's a combination of two factors. 1) I grew up in East Germany under communism and with oppression. I understand the importance of freedom, and I sympathize with the plight of the Tibetans. 2) I've been studying Buddhism for 20 years, and I was curious to find out what happened in 1949 and 1950 with Tibet and China. Also, I found the story on the young king in exile in India, and I was interested in how he was trying to find his path to the future as a leader in the Tibetan ways.

Jerry: What made you keep going during that 7 years it took to make this film?

Dirk: Well, I didn't realize that it was going to take 7 years, but the story kept growing and developing. First, I wanted to use my voice as a platform to show injustice and to make the story more public. Many people talk about the injustices in the world, but I felt the need to take action.

Second, after feeling all the gratitude of the Tibetan people for what I was doing, I was moved and inspired. Even in the dark moments, I knew I couldn't turn back, as I was so taken by how appreciative the Tibetans were.

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[keeyk118b]

Freedom is not a birthright. You have to fight to obtain and keep your freedom. Tibet's leaders were criminally incompetent not to modernise and obtain a modern army. China was wrong to have invaded Tibet but Tibetsns leaders were asleep at the wheel!

[Lielupe]

Red occupation of Tibet is terrible but not for a long decades, free Tibet was and will be forever!

[harry2sing4u]

Thank you gabri3u, but the message that got removed contained no slander to any one. But it is not important. I jus follow developments, and I enjoy seeing Tibetan Song, Tibetan Youth and now Tibet Archive telling the world what's going on. This is beautiful and I want to see this movie!

[gabri3u]

The peace will be, when people stop murder each other, disappear in strange circumstances, judged faked by marionettes, brainwashed by propaganda to believe in one and only ideology (which killed already millions of people!), when one "nation" will stop to be proud of being something better than rest of the world, when people will feel, that land they live in is their land, as well as the whole planet, finally when they get rid of governments, which are corrupted from the base. Wolny Tybet.

[harry2sing4u]

I find it strange that a message that contained no terms of abuse was removed, and another message that is just a term of abuse is till here. How will we have peace? ever?

[harry2sing4u]

So 2 things MUST happen. FREE TIBET. Democracy (still the best alternative) in China.

China has a long long way to go, wonder if it'll happen in our lifetime. I've been trying hard 4 20 yrs to communicate with Chinese friends. TSquare has left a hole in many hearts as deep as ground zer0, Nobody wants to talk. Out of 50 friends 2 have the courage to write to me. In english. The others keep writing only in chinese. Many walls to break down.FIRST: FREE TIBET. OUR HELP IS NEEDED. And love 4 All.

[closelynibbledgrass]

films like this need to be made and seen alot so that people know what is happening and don't forget. The chinese have already brainwashed their own people about Tibet and would like this for the rest of the world too.

Keep the Tibet flag flying high because everything about the Tibet and its culture is amazing ...chinese communists don't have a culture...actually they do - a culture of lies.

[hd19840810]

fucking assholes