Having premiered at the 2023 Venice and Toronto International Film Festival, Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden’s final completed feature, Snow Leopard, is set in the vast and stunning Tibetan terrain, and uses the fabled creature to pose and probe the universal question of tradition versus modernity. An unexpected incident causes a snow leopard to break into the sheep pen of a local herder and kill nine rams not only causing a generational row in the family and attracting a TV crew into the village, but also triggering a heated debate on whether to honour or abandon traditional values in modern day Tibet.
A special tribute screening of Snow Leopard with an introduction from Sonali Joshi.
Having premiered at the 2023 Venice and Toronto International Film Festival, Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden’s final completed feature, Snow Leopard, is set in the vast and stunning Tibetan terrain, and uses the fabled creature to pose and probe the universal question of tradition versus modernity. An unexpected incident causes a snow leopard to break into the sheep pen of a local herder and kill nine rams not only causing a generational row in the family and attracting a TV crew into the village, but also triggering a heated debate on whether to honour or abandon traditional values in modern day Tibet.
