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.

CANCELLED

Due to an ongoing server issue we have decided to close the cinema this weekend while the repair is completed. We cannot, in good faith, sell tickets for shows which we are not 100% sure are going to project perfectly.  We will do our best to be up running again as soon as possible and will reschedule Snow Leopard in the New Year.

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