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Date: Sunday, October 1, 2006
Show Times: 1:00 P.M., 3:00 P.M., 5:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M.
Event Info:
A small film could not have a bigger philosophical question: what is more important, inner development or outward social action?
In a nunnery in the high desert mountains of Mustang, a revered abbess dies, leaving signs that she will be reborn in the precious human form. Prayers and ritual must be done to help her consciousness into its next rebirth, but the nunnery coffers are empty.
The senior nuns decide that the only way out is get back money loaned out by the nunnery. A mysterious loan was made out to an equally mysterious Mr. Tashi who visited the senior nun in her last days. Given the shady rumors about Mr. Tashi, the nuns are convinced he took advantage of her in her dying state.
The two nuns assigned the mission to retrieve the money are Karma, a free-spirited nun, and her opposite, a textbook nun, Sonam. Mr. Tashi proves elusive. His shadowy trail leads them from the cloistered world of the high mountains, to the sin cities, and a host of small cruelties.
Will Karma be successful recuperating the money loaned to Tashi?
The movie, Karma – A Journey to Consciousness, is directed by Tsering Rhitar Sherpa, under whose belt is Mukundo, which was Nepal's Official Entry for Academy Awards (OSCAR) in Best Foreign Language Film in 2000. His documentary The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore, won Best Film Award, Film South Asia (Festival of South Asian Documentary Films), Kathmandu, Nepal in 1997 and Best Indigenous Filmmaker of the Year, Parnu Anthropological Film Festival, Estonia in 1998.
Other critically acclaimed body of work includes, Tears of Torture, a documentary film about a Tibetan nun who crossed snow passes and Chinese police check posts to escape from Tibet on foot, Highway to Hell, about trafficking of girls from Nepal to India, Dignity in Exile, a documentary film about the renaissance of Tibetan culture in exile.
His latest film, which is not yet released, Karma; is a feature film about two Buddhist nuns from a remote nunnery in Mustang region of Nepal, who are sent down to track an elusive local businessman and recover the money that he owes to the nunnery. This film is 90 minutes long and is in Nepali and Tibetan with English subtitle.
As the movie wraps its tour of North America, which is organized by Ex-Mussoori Alumni Association of Nepal (www.exmussoorie.com), to benefit their project "Home Away from Home", it makes it final stop in New York, before it heads back to Nepal for its official release to the general public.
KARMA will be shown on Sunday, October 1, 2006 in Eagle Theater, Jackson Heights, Queens. Show Times are 1:00 P.M., 3:00 P.M., 5:00 P.M. AND 7:00 P.M.
To buy your tickets online, please visit http://sherpakyidug.org/karma/. Or you can buy tickets at following establishments.
In Queens.
Himalayan Yak Restaurant
72-20 Roosevelt Avenue
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Tel: (718) 779-1119
Om Tibet Restaurant
40-05 73 St
Jackson Heights, NY
(718) 672-3080
Tibet Mobile
73-19 A 37th Road
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(917) 574-1443
Yeti Nepalese & Japanese Cuisine
43-16 Queens Blvd. (between 43rd and 44th Streets)
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-784-9384
Eagle Theater
73-07 37th Rd
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(718) 565-8783
In Manhattan
TIBET EMPORIUM
156 Sullivan St
New York, NY 10012-3007
(212) 228-8991
TIBET KAILASH
48 Greenwich Ave
New York, NY 10011
(212) 255-9572
TIBET – Himalayan Gifts & Accessories
213 West 80th Street
New York, N.Y. 10024
( 212 ) 873 - 9884
Thank you for your support.
Venue: Eagle Theater, 73-07 37th Road, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
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