From the archive record
Samsara is the name of a movie made with Indo-Tibetan support. Through this film made in Tibetian language, the makers want to showcase the importance of spiritual freedom and married life trying to bring forth the struggles faced. Director and writer of this movie is Pan Nalin who is of Indian origin but resides in France. Tashi has been raised as a Buddhist monk since age five. When he gets erotic phantasms as an adolescent, his spiritual master decides it's time to taste profane life, sending him on a journey in the real Himalayan world. Once he is told his hottest dream was real, Tashi decides to leave the monastery and marries Pema, the daughter of a rich farmer, who was actually engaged with local stone-mason Jamayang. The ex-lama soon becomes a rich land-owner himself and makes a ki