04/13/2012
The West Coast premiere takes place on Sunday 4/22 followed by additional screenings on Monday 4/23 and Friday 4/27. Pema will be making a special appearance for a Q&A at the closing night screening on Friday 4/27.
Director Pema Tseden is the leading filmmaker in the only-just-emerging New Tibetan Cinema. His mesmerizing third feature, Old Dog, unfurls on plains some three thousand feet above sea level in the Tibetan region of the Chinese province of Qinghai. It tells the story of an aged sheepherder, his gruf...