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The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
Directed by
Tenzing Sonam
,
Ritu Sarin
TV-G
2010
79m
Documentary
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Biography
,
and more
6.6
88%
60%
6.0
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Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?
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Cast of The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
Tenzin Gyatso
Self
Tenzing Sonam
Director / Screenplay / Producer
Ritu Sarin
Director / Producer
The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom Ratings & Reviews
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Structurally, The Sun Behind the Clouds is pretty straightforward, often feeling like it may feel more at home on PBS than in cinemas.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A clear-headed and even-handed look at how the Dalai Lama, as both spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people, has handled his exile to India since 1959.
Wisconsin State Journal
Rob Thomas
This is a thoughtful and instructive documentary even for those who think they understand the Tibetan dilemma.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Illuminates the increasing complexity and contradictions in regard to the role of the Dalai Lama, exiled in India since 1959.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
The Sun Behind the Clouds is a well-made and sobering look at the current state of Tibet's battle for some degree of autonomy.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
For all its worthiness politically, The Sun Behind the Clouds is a lackluster film.
Boston Phoenix
Shaula Clark
This quietly intense documentary from husband-and-wife filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin shines a light on the inter-Tibetan turbulence.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Of the many documentaries that have chronicled Tibet's ongoing struggle for independence, The Sun Behind the Clouds offers the most thorough, balanced and up-to-date assessment of the dilemma facing Tibetans under oppressive Chinese rule.
Boxoffice Magazine
Matthew Nestel
The filmmakers do bang-up job expanding the frontline perspectives, aiming to subvert a ruling regime's course and expose its cloudy human rights record.
ComingSoon.net
Edward Douglas
You have to be impressed with the dedication the filmmakers had to covering as much of the story as they could at a time when it was very much in the public eye.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
An eye-opening, provocative, vital and well-balanced examination of Tibet's multifaceted, ongoing struggle for independence.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The documentary does a superlative job of examining the half-century dispute over Chinese rule of mountainous Tibet.
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
The Sun Behind the Clouds offers a succinct and sober look at the philosophical impasse at the heart of the Tibetan cause.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
The presence of this film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January caused China to withdraw two movies from that event, but the documentary is as much a challenge to the Dalai Lama as it is to the Chinese.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Avoids talking head-itis, limiting commentators to a digestible few, mostly Tibetan-in-exile authors, historians, dissidents and activists.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The drippy editorializing is a shame, because it's oddly not the unprecedented candor of the Dalai Lama that speaks for the Tibetan struggle most piquantly.
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