Sunday, 05 October 2008
7.30pm

Amazing amateur colour footage of Tibet from four rare film collections brings to life the forbidden land the Dalai Lama grew up in before the Communist invasion.

The British Film Institute granted this film's producers exclusive access to revealing footage taken by intelligence officers of the Raj, a Chinese official and a Communist cameraman. Their forensic examination zooms in and around the frames to reveal some amazing aspects of the Dalai Lama's childhood. This stunning documentary also includes eyewitness accounts from old Tibetans, British and Chinese officers and the Dalai Lama himself, interwoven with film of the Tibetan exiles in north India today.