Archive of films Little Wisdom / Xiao Zhihui
Canada / Nepal / China
2017, 92 min
Section:
Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2018
An isolated Buddhist monastery in southern Nepal not only provides refuge for monks, but also for orphans up to the age of sixteen. Far removed from civilisation, the boys learn about strict discipline and order yet, like all children, they hanker after adventure. An observational documentary which captures both the routine of the passing days and the vagaries of boyhood.
Synopsis
Five-year-old Hopakuli can’t really remember his life outside the Buddhist monastery. When he was an infant his mother entrusted him and his older brother Chorten to the care of monks living in southern Nepal because, as for many other boys from humble origins, this was the only chance to get an education. In her observational, contemplative documentary Yuqi Kang overturns the romantic notion of what Buddhists are: they’re not merely self-possessed adults, but also mischievous little scamps. Despite the assumption that only strict discipline is taught behind the monastery walls, the gifted, keen-eyed director demonstrates in her debut that these boys, like all children, have bags of energy and hanker after adventure.
Sandra Hezinová
About the director
Yuqi Kang (b. 1987, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China). Filmography: Cities and Memory (2014, short), Pathos (2014, short doc.)
Contacts
Journeyman Pictures Ltd.
4-6 High Street, KT7 0RY, Thames Ditton Surrey
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 208 398 4616
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, DCP
European premiere
Section: | Documentary Films - Competition |
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Director: | Yuqi Kang |
Dir. of Photography: | Yuqi Kang, Amitahb Joshi, Paola Ochoa |
Music: | Martin Zaulich, Drukmo Gyal |
Editor: | Yuqi Kang |
Producer: | Maro Chermayeff, Yuqi Kang |
Production: | Blue Goat Films |
Sales: | Journeyman Pictures Ltd. |
www: | https://www.thelittlewisdom.com/ |
Guests
Sean Farnel
Distributor, PR & Marketing, Producer, Sales Agent
Yuqi Kang
Film Director
Cao Xi
Producer