Dalai Lama Renaissance

Dalai Lama Renaissance is a documentary, shot in 2000 for a conference with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India.

The film follows 40 thinkers on their way to the mountains of the Himalayas. There they met with the Dalai Lama at his residence in northern India into a kind of summit meeting to discuss the current problems of the world and to look for possible solutions. Director and producer Khashyar Darvich held the week-long event with a fixed 18 -man film crew. As a narrator, the actor Harrison Ford speaks

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Dalai Lama Renaissance documentary accompanied forty in their field world's leading experts who have come together as "Synthesis Group," a workshop with the Dalai Lama. The journey begins in India with the coming together of engaged Buddhists, Catholics, philosophers and physicists. The aim of all this is to develop a methodology to bring about social change and bring it to a new way the world in order.

Awards

• Best Documentary, Peace Award (Monaco International Film Festival 2007 )
• Grand Jury Prize ( Canada International Film Festival 2007)
• Best Documentary, Audience Award - Best Documentary ( Moondance International Film Festival 2007 )
• Grand Jury Special Prize (Barbados International Film Festival 2007 )
• Audience Award - Best Documentary ( Big Bear International Film Festival 2007 )
• Koshino Miyako Award ( Global Peace FF Japan 2007)
• People's Choice Award ( Frozen River Film Festival 2008 )
• Audience Award ( Sedona International Film Festival 2008 )
• Gold Remi Award ( Houston International Film Festival 2008 )

Cinema

The official theatrical release in Germany on 30 October 2008.

Sources & links

• Dalai Lama Renaissance at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official German Website: www.dalailamafilm.de
• Original site for the film: www.dalailamafilm.com