Drapchi Elegy

Release Year
2017
Runtime
17m
Directed By
Ritu Sarin
Tenzing Sonam
Drapchi Elegy

A portrait of Namdol Lhamo, a middle-aged Tibetan woman who lives in Brussels and works as a housekeeper in an old people's home. Lhamo is one of the famous Drapchi 14, a group of nuns imprisoned in the notorious Drapchi prison of Lhasa in the early 1990s for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation.

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