Daughters of Wisdom
by Bari Pearlman
68’, Digital Betacam, USA, 2007
An intimate portrait of the nuns of Kala Rongo, a solely female Buddhist monastery in Nangchen, a remote rural region in northeast Tibet. These nuns receive a religious and cultural education that was once inaccessible to women, and carry out a role without precedent in the protection and continuation of their rich cultural inheritance. In an extraordinarily natural way, the nuns allow Bari Pearlman’s cameras to bring to the screen a previously unseen portrait of their vibrant spiritual community and extraordinary lives. Some are timid, others enthusiastic, but all are united by the difficult life they have chosen, far from their families’ farms and villages. This is the story of a spiritual community that just twenty years ago could not have existed, but that is now growing larger by the day.
Bari Pearlman
Born in 1966, the American Bari Pearlman has been a writer, director and independent producer since 1998, when she began shooting films and documentaries featuring, principally, women and the most wide-ranging forms of art. She is also involved in the organization of major art world events.
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Portraits
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Viewing of prize-winning films
Sunday, August 29, 2010, at 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., screenings of the prize-winning films of the 16th Film Festival della Lessinia. Take a look.