Drokpa – 2017

Show Title: Drokpa
Competition Feature
Tuesday, April 4, 1:15 PM

Drokpa
Director: Yan Chun Su
Documentary
79 min
China

Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet, Drokpa is an intimate portrait of an extended nomadic family whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change. With rare access to a small community of nomads living on the vast yet rapidly degrading grasslands on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, DROKPA, meaning nomads and nomadic culture in Tibetan, reveals the unprecedented environmental and social-political forces the nomads are facing.

My Beautiful Deadly City
Director: Victoria Fiore
Documentary
11 min
UK/Russia

Residents of an industrial town in the Arctic ponder how pollution affects their lives and the landscape.