Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Tsunma, Tsunma: My Summer with the Female Monastics of the Himalaya

Lifang LIN 2017 Taiwan Documentary b/w & color 70min Tibetic DCP
Tsunma, an honorific term connoting “noble, delicate, and pure”, refers to the Tibetan Buddhist Nuns of the Himalayan Region. Taiwanese photographer Lin Li-Fang undertook a solo journey up 4,270 meters into the Himalayan Plateau and captured a life devoted to hope and faith and a people possessing a unique kind of tolerance, humility, and perseverance.

Director

Lifang LIN

Lin graduated from CTI College in Photography in France in 1993, and also the National Taiwan University of Arts Graduate School of Applied Media Arts in 2002. In 1999 she began documenting the life and work of Tibetan Buddhist Monks in India. She was awarded Taiwan's Golden Tripod Award and the Johnny Walker’s Keep Walking Prize.

Lifang LIN
  • 2017 Tsunma, Tsunma: My Summer with the Female Monastics of the Himalaya(尊瑪、尊瑪:我和她們在喜馬拉雅山的夏天)
  • 2009 我的母親
  • 2008 朝聖者–菩提迦的大禮拜 
  • 2005 Buddha’s Sons(心子)
  • 2004 Papa’ s Youthful Dream(阿爸的青春夢 )

Producer:Gavin LIN
Cinematographer:LIN Li-Fang
Editor:Lin Hao-Pu
Sound:Book CHIEN
Music:CHANG Wen-Cheng

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