Tibetan film newsTaos Mountain Film Festival to spotlight TibetTAOS, New Mexico, USA, 13 August 2008 — This year's Taos Mountain Film Festival in this New Mexican ski resort town will feature films, guests and slideshows from the Tibetan Plateau, the planet's most spectacular terrain known as the Roof of the World. This region has been shrouded in mystery and myth for millennia. For centuries it was closed to foreigners and the recent opening has been tainted by oppression and violence. more Dalai Lama to attend Rome film fest's Tibet DayBy CBC News 
10 July 2008 — The Dalai Lama is to attend a Rome Film Festival tribute to Tibet on Oct. 8. The Tibet Day program was organized by Goffredo Bettini, the former president of the fledgling festival, which was started in 2006 to rival the established Venice festival. In an interview in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Bettini confirmed that the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has accepted an invitation to attend. more More film articlesFilm sites
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Free Spirit Film Festival 2008The Free Spirit Film Festival postponed indefinitely. The Free Spirit Film Festival schedule to he held at the end of March in Mcleod Ganj, India, has been postponed indefinitely due to unrest in Tibet. Massive protests resisted the unjust policies of the Chinese government in Tibet. Started by monks at the Drepung monastery in Lhasa on 10 March, the protests spread to the whole of Lhasa city in the following days and eventually to all the Tibetan inhabited areas in all the three provinces of Tibet. According to the Tibetan government-in-exile 203 Tibetans have been killed and more than five thousand detained after China clamped down on the protests. Foreign journalists and tourists have been banned from travelling to Tibet and communications systems are censored. Get more and latest information about the Tibetan situation from: Tibet Sun, TGiE, and TCHRD. The new dates will be announced as and when there is appropriate atmosphere for a festival.
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Film Festival 2008Venue
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Two films screened every night from 7 p.m. Ticket: Rs. 100.00 per evening; available at gate. Sponsors
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