There are situations in which the love of close ones does not reach the limits achieved in personal development. Tenzin, who has grown up in a Tibetan community in Canada, has reached the milestone of his twenties and finds himself standing at a bewildering crossroads of life. The previously unwavering belief in fighting for the eternal preservation of the Tibetan people collapses when Tenzin’s brother decides to set himself on fire in the course of a protest held in China. How do you feel, together with others, pride and gratitude for your brother’s suicide? Unable to find answers in the fields of meaning of spirituality, Tenzin sets out to seek these in the madness of the modern culture.

This psychological drama flows between reality and dreams, creating an extremely powerful impression of an encapsulated world shadowed by the heavy curtain of grief. The integral whole produced in cooperation between Joshua Reichmann an Michael LeBlanc highlights the strengths of both directors. Reichmann is a renowned musician, writer and healer. LeBlanc is an award-winning cinematographer who has besides feature and short films also made numerous music videos.

"Tenzin", written with immediate intimacy by Tibetans themselves, is made powerful by the straightforward limitlessness of structure and dramaturgy, which allows viewers to delve into the unfamiliar feelings and discover a mystically distant and inaccessible world shaped in this symbiotic joint creation.

Elise Eimre