Snow Leopard (12A) 7th-8th December

Director: Pema Tseden

Cast: Jinpa, Ziqi Xiong, Tseten Tashi

Tibetan/Chinese with subtitles

The sellout show of this year’s Borderlines Film Festival, now on release.

The penultimate film of Tibetan director Pema Tseden (Tharlo, Balloon), centres around a disagreement between a father and his two sons about how to deal with the predator that threatens their livelihood. It’s a visually stunning, spiritual piece of work, set in a rural community on the Tibetan plateau. A magnificent but deadly snow leopard has been trapped by a shepherd whose sheep it has mauled. He wants to slaughter it but his father, abiding by the traditional Tibetan values of reverence for the animal kingdom, and his younger brother, a monk, do everything in their power to dissuade him.

Sunday 8th December 2024, 4.30pm