Tibet in Song (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

A Fight to Preserve Tibetan Music
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Published: September 23, 2010

Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who was imprisoned by the Chinese for more than six years, would have had a compelling film had he simply stuck to his own remarkable story. But his documentary, “Tibet in Song,” is doubly powerful because he also weaves in the overall history of Tibet’s struggle, a primer on the Chinese government’s campaign to muzzle Tibetan culture and vignettes from other Tibetans who resisted. More