Child of Yak
Synopsis
On the Tibetan hights, a couple of farmers live with around thirty yaks. Their only child is a seven-year-old girl named Lhamo. While their life passes by peacefully, the family has the visit from a Tibetan militiaman who exhorts the parents to send Lhamo to the school, to sell the herd and to join the structures of State. For the first time, Lhamo is going to have to leave the valleys, with the risk of being abruptly confronted with a violent society which iwill not understand her lifestyle.
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- Executive Producer : Sesama Production
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Jérôme Dutertre
- Screenwriters : Christophe Boula, Tenzin Kunchap
- Director of Photography : Fred Vallet
- Music Composer : Pierre Estève
- Editor : Christophe Boula
- Sound Recordist : Clément Maléo
- Sound Assistant : Nassim El Mounabbih
- Production Manager : Tashi Chosphal
- Sound editors : Frédéric Théry, Adrien Millot
- Continuity supervisor : Tsering Lhamo
- Sound Mixer : Frédéric Théry
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Minorities, Family, Parable, Monde rural, Mountains, Fauna, Politics, Power, Spiritualité, Death
- Production language : Tibetan
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 26 min 9 seconds
- Visa number : 123.620
- Visa issue date : 24/11/2010
- Production formats : HD 4K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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