Sikkim & Tibet at Paris Film Festival

Paris, 18 April - Five Tibet-related film has been selected at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival which officially kicks off on Thursday in Paris. In the Documentary section of the Festival, titled "Tibet: Un Peuple en Otage" (Tibet: People in Hostage), it will screen TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION by Tom & Sue Peosay, Maria Slorio; L'ENFANT VOLÉ (The Stolen Child), a french-language documentary on XI Panchen Rinpoche, by Ludovic Segarra; ALEXANDRA DAVID-NÉEL: du Sikkim au Tibet interdit, by Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis & Antoine de Maximy; ANGRY MONK by Luc Schaedler; TIBET CLANDESTIN by Agnès Fouilleux.Tibet, "fascinate the Westerners, perhaps see them s a symbol of peace and liberty, almost sacred, a model of society which they did not imagine possible any more", says the official site www.jva.frThis selection which is not a part of the competition, is "devoted to the people of Tibetan and will take us, beyond the myth, beyond the clichés and the ideologies, to meet with the Tibetans, their history, personal and collective," said the organisers.Wangpo Bashi, Secretary, Bureau du Tibet, Paris, Ludovic Segarra, Director, Dolkar Tsering, a Tibetan living in Paris, will speak at a panel discussion after the screenings.The Awards Ceremony will take place on Saturday, 21 April at Paris' Grand Rex Theater