"An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues. A Tibetan doctor arrives, and father Pala (Tsewang Migyur Khangsar) tells him that Western medicine cannot seem to explain the pain he feels in his heart. The doctor takes his pulse, not to know his heart rate, but to listen to something deeper and more intangible hiding in the inner self."
"Tenzin Phuntsog's fiction debut, Next Life, contrasts the bureaucratic reality of living in exile with the spiritual desire to return. Son Rigzin (Rigzin Phurpatsang) is trying to get his father through the red tape of the Chinese embassy and get him a visa to return to Tibet while simultaneously dealing with his father's failing health and traditional spiritual practices that must be performed to prepare him for the next life."
An image of the Dalai Lama appears in a suburban American house where a Tibetan family sits while a doctor listens to a deeper pulse that evokes a past trauma in Tibet. Next Life contrasts bureaucratic exile with a spiritual desire to return, following son Rigzin as he navigates the Chinese embassy's red tape, his father's failing health, and traditional practices to prepare him for the next life. The director was denied entry to Tibet while trying to shoot landscapes in Ngari and sent his American cameraman with shooting notes. The director was born in India, emigrated to the U.S., and studied at UCLA and Columbia.
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