On 19th August, SFT India screened “Budrus” as a part of it's ongoing weekly movie screening. Budrus, is an 80 minute documentary about the non-violent movement in the Palestinian town of Budrus. Being in…
On July 29th we screened the film Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet. During the 1950s the Tibetan resistance movement which is nowadays known for its non-violence gained an unlikely ally in the struggle against…
On July 15th we screened the biopic César Chávez: History is Made One Step At a Time. This movie tells the story of the non-violent civil rights leader César Chávez, who fought for the rights…
On Wednesday, May 27, Sangye Tso, a 36 year old Tibetan woman, mother of two children, set herself on fire outside a local Chinese official building, and near a monastery where teachings were being held for a…
Last week, we hosted a group of 11 students from American University in Washington DC. Mostly in their first or second year of college, the students came from a variety of academic backgrounds, including international…
On May 20th we screened the film 5 Broken Cameras, a personal take on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The film is a collection of footage by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, each of whose cameras were destroyed…
On May 7th, we screened critically acclaimed Wadjda (2012). As the first feature film produced solely within Saudi Arabia and directed by a woman Saudi filmmaker, Haifaa al-Mansour, the film is itself an act of…
On April 27, we screened the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender. We picked three episodes which include obvious relations to the conflict between Tibet and China. Following the screening, we had a really…
On April 15th we screened CITIZENFOUR, a film about Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. After the film, we discussed surveillance in China and Tibet. The US and China both have enormous surveillance capabilities,…
Today over 100 Tibetans, Indian and foreign supporters observed World Water Day with a series of creative events to shine a light on China’s rampant environmental degradation of Tibet’s rivers and environment. Jointly organized by…