Sunrise/Sunset: Dalai Lama XIV
Directed by: Vitaly Mansky
Friday, August 7 - Thursday, August 13, 2009
Screening in DocuWeeks 2009. SUNRISE/SUNSET: DALAI LAMA XIV depicts 24 hours spent by the film crew inside the residence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from the beginning of his day, which starts at 3:00 a.m., until sunset, when the Buddhist leader goes to bed. Filmmaker Vitaly Mansky also got a chance to enjoy an informal conversation about the essence of the universe and the role an individual has to play in religion in general and Buddhism in particular in the frameworks of contemporary society.
NR, 96 MinutesStudio Vertov/Real Cinema, Russian Federation, 2009
