By Tenam
11 April, Paris: The Sun Behind the Clouds, Tibet’s struggle for Freedom, a documentary film by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam won the ‘Prix du Public’ or public choice award at the prestigious 32nd Films de Femmes ‘Women’s Film Festival’ in Creteil, a city to the south of Paris yesterday.
The film had earlier won the Vaclav Havel award for its contribution to the protection of human rights in March and ‘Audience documentary favorite’ at the prestigious 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, California.
The film chronicles the various events of the massive protest of 2008 inside Tibet and the parallel activities by Tibetan activists and supporters around the world. In 2008 the duo’s film ‘Dreaming Lhasa’ was screened at the opening night and competed under the category of ‘films long duration’.
Started in 1979, the International Women’s Film festival of Creteil invites women filmmakers from around the world to “highlight women’s perspective on their societies”.
