It’s another look at one of the many amazing documentaries playing at this year’s South By Southwest TV & Film Festival! MOLA: A TIBETAN TALE OF LOVE & LOSS landed on Team GetReelMovies.com desk with a lot of interest!
About: Kunsang Wangmo – known as “Mola” to her family – is a Tibetan nun exiled from her homeland in 1959 to escape the Chinese occupation. Now 100 years old, and after living with her daughter Sonam in Switzerland for the past 45 years, she decides her last wish is to die in Tibet. This is the story of a mother and daughter coming to terms with this phase in Mola’s life, and Sonam and her husband Martin’s journey to make Mola’s last wish come true.
Reaction: A strong and quietly powerful doc that I immediately responded to as a beautiful story on a now-100 year old woman who wishes to spend her final years back in her home of Tibet from Switzerland. Though I thought it would start off as just a standard doc on her plight, the movie really becomes a study of the people around her and how she affects people. I just loved Kunsana to death and is someone I wish I could also meet, and it is so inspiring to see her still so kind to everyone around her (but don’t try to get in a slapping match with her…you will lose!). The movie has a much slower pace than other docs in the festival but on its own, this doesn’t bother me as it’s a good story that also calls back Tibetan history as well as showing its effects on our title character. Though I feel this may fall past the radar of many festival goers, please don’t miss the chance to see this beautiful and well made story on the big screen, where it belongs.
This is one of the many movies playing in this year’s South By Southwest Film & TV Festival. For more information on the festival, point your browser to www.sxsw.com!