Buddhist Film Festival 2025
Shambhala
Pema takes a journey into the unforgiving wilderness to find a lost love, evolving into a quest of self-discovery and liberation.
Director: Min Bahadur Bham
Cast includes: Thinley LHAMO, Sonam TOPDEN
150 mins / 2024 / NEPAL, FRANCE, NORWAY, TURKEY, HONG KONG, TAIWAN, USA, QATAR, Tibet, subtitles
Screening as part of our Buddhist Film Festival 2025.
In a Himalayan polyandrous village in Nepal, newly married and pregnant Pema tries to make the best of her new life. But soon, her first husband Tashi vanishes on the trade route to Lhasa.
Accompanied by her monk de facto husband, Karma, she embarks on a journey into the unforgiving wilderness to find him, evolving into a quest of self-discovery and liberation.
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