A STRANGER IN MY NATIVE LAND

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

This deeply personal documentary from Tenzing Sonam traces the director’s first visit to his native Tibet and doubles as a visual essay on exile, the loss of language, and the complexity of national identities. Poetic and melancholic, the film is also bracingly confrontational in its politics.