The Sweet Requiem
Exclusive Special Screening - A film by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Melbourne • Sat 29th October 2022
A fundraising event with all proceeds going to Tibetan Children's Village orphanages. More info at www.anzty.com
“Intensely personal and emphatically universal filmmaking.” – Hollywood Reporter
“The film puts its points across with a delicacy and sobriety rare in moviemaking.” – The New York Times
“…a taut, lyrical story…unfolding like a slow-burn thriller…” – Film Threat
“…a powerfully poetic film, one of lush photography and subtle direction…” – CriterionCast
“The Sweet Requiem, in a way, holds the burning match of a global crisis, a spiritual crisis, to us…” – Bomb Magazine
“The film puts its points across with a delicacy and sobriety rare in moviemaking.” – The New York Times
“…a taut, lyrical story…unfolding like a slow-burn thriller…” – Film Threat
“…a powerfully poetic film, one of lush photography and subtle direction…” – CriterionCast
“The Sweet Requiem, in a way, holds the burning match of a global crisis, a spiritual crisis, to us…” – Bomb Magazine
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Dolkar is a 25-year-old Tibetan woman living in Delhi. 15 years ago, she escaped from Tibet with her father, making a perilous trek across the Himalayas. Since then she has suppressed all recollection of that traumatic journey. But when Dolkar unexpectedly encounters Gompo, the guide who led them from Tibet only to abandon them before they crossed the final pass to freedom, memories of her escape are reignited and she is propelled on an obsessive search for reconciliation and closure.
Following Gompo obsessively through the narrow alleys of Majnu ka Tila, the Tibetan refugee colony in North Delhi, she is sucked into his strange and solitary existence. Flashbacks of her desperate journey with a small group through a harsh and desolate Himalayan terrain punctuate Dolkar’s growing predicament in the present as Gompo turns out not to be who she always imagined him to be. Caught up in a web of political intrigue that is much larger than her personal quest, Dolkar must now reconcile Gompo’s act of treachery that has haunted her all her life with the life-or-death situation he now faces. The two stories moving in tandem, one inexorably forwards in the present, the other unexpectedly backwards in time, both determined by a series of fateful choices, reaches its conclusion as Dolkar and Gompo finally confront each other and the source of Dolkar’s long-buried anguish is revealed.
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Selected Film Festivals and Screenings:
2018 World Premiere Toronto International Film Festival 2018 Mill Valley Film Festival Dharamshala International Film Festival Hawaii International Film Festival Kolkata International Film Festival (NETPAC Award) International Film Festival of India Goa International Film Festival of Kerala Malta Indian Film Festival Aurangabad International Film Festival (Audience Award) 2019 International Film Festival of Bhubaneshwar |
Bengaluru International Film Festival Tromsø International Film Festival FIFDH (The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights) Human Rights Watch Film Festival Cambodia International Film Festival Nitte Film Festival Cleveland International Film Festival Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) Washington, DC International Film Festival Special Screening: Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Washington, DC Trento Film Festival |
