Tashi and the Monk (UK) | Click here to watch
(39 min; 2014; English/Tibetan/Hindi with English subtitles)
Directors: Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke
Multiple award winner including Best Directing Award, Autrans Mountain Film Festival 2015; Audience Award for Best Short, Independent Film Festival of Boston 2015; Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary, News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2016; Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary, Prescott Film Festival 2015; among others
On a remote mountaintop a brave social experiment is taking place. Committed to raising children with love and compassion, former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok attempts to heal his own childhood abandonment by adopting 85 unwanted children and growing them as a family at Jhamtse Gatsal, a remote children's community in the foothills of the Himalayas. The film follows Jhamtse's newest arrival, a wild and troubled 5-year-old girl named Tashi, as she learns what love is and how it can help her to heal.
