Lhamo, l'enfant de l'Himalaya

Pitch

“My name is Lhamo, I was born high up among the highest mountains in the world, and I’m going to tell you my story, the story of my childhood. My mother, Ama, gave birth at home; my father was in the mountains with his herds…” Thus begins this film in the land of eternal snows, yaks, and long-haired goats. In the poverty of the isolated villages of Ladakh and Zanskar, it is the perspective of a little girl on this simple and joyful life that guides us from her birth to her adolescence. To become a member of the small community, Lhamo must help the elders and go up into the high pastures. From a very young age, Lhamo sees Aba, her father, leave in winter on the frozen river, and she knows that one day she will have to walk on the ice. While her brother Tashi will be placed in the monastery clinging to the cliff, she is chosen to go to the great school in Leh.