Siberian Dream, which is also screening at the festival, features an unusual woman, from an unusual place, living an unusual life. In Daughters of Wisdom, we have 300. They are the nuns of Kala Rongo, a Buddhist monastery exclusively for women in remote and spectacularly beautiful Nanchen Province, northeastern Tibet. Lama Norla Rinpoche founded Kala Rongo to redress the neglect and downright discrimination encountered by Tibetan women who seek a life of spiritual practice by affording them the education and training which was previously denied. We are privileged to observe these daughters of Tibet as they come to and share their wisdom, blazing new trails beyond the timeworn and rutted paths which tradition intended for them.

(2007, 68 min., in English and Tibetan with English subtitles.) – GR