Thursday | June 17, 1999 7:00 pm

Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet
(Lung Ta: Les cavaliers du vent)

Screening on Film

Directed by Marie Joual de Poncheville, Franz-Christoph Giercke.
France, 1991, 35mm, color, 86 min.
Narrated in English.

Exquisitely photographed images of one of the most splendid areas on earth are contrasted in the narration with the horrors inflicted on Tibet during forty years of Chinese occupation. The film is co-directed by Marie Joual de Poncheville, who was a guest of Harvard during the recent visit here of her companion, Abderrahmane Sissako. (She was under house arrest by the Chinese for two months when she made this documentary.)

June 3 – July 29, 1999

A Tribute to Zeitgeist Films

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960