Saturday 18th February 11:10 AM - Rheged
Paths of the Soul
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Director: Yang Zhang Country: ChinaCert: TBC Year: 2015 Length: 115 minsLanguage: Tibetan
2017 Festival
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Score: 87.68% Attendance: 99
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Synopsis
For 1200km, the Tibetan pilgrims of Zhang Yang's extraordinary travelogue clap, drop face down to the road or gravel or mud, and then lift themselves up to walk a few steps and do it all again, on a pilgrimage to Lhasa, the holy capital. We see the simplicity of human relationships and the nature of family, suffering, and extraordinary determination.
Zhang shot for more than a year and also managed to secure approval from the Chinese government to make and distribute this film celebrating Tibetan spirituality.
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Critics

The film is restful and exhausting, a contemplation of Tibet's epic-scale natural beauty, filmed with patience and intimacy, as each new horizon is a reward for the pilgrim's perseverance.

Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice