This year’s Tricycle|BuddhaFest Online Festival runs June 21–August 15, 2021 with talks, musical performances, and thirteen films selected by our International Buddhist Film Festival (IBFF), and includes a special presentation of Peter Sellar’s new performance work, This Body Is So Impermanent.
The IBFF film selections are by two important new contributors to Buddhist cinema. Six films from Bhutan were assembled by noted filmmaker Dechen Roder (Honeygiver Among the Dogs, IBFF 2018 SHOWCASE) from the Beskop Bhutan collection. And from the U.S., are seven titles from the On the Buddha’s Path series of films about socially engaged Buddhism produced by Tzu Chi USA, including stories with Joan Halifax, Fleet Maull, Matthieu Ricard, and others.
VISIONS FROM BUDDHIST BHUTAN: In the Realm of the Gods, directed by Pema Tshering; Monk in the Forest, directed by Karma Wangchuk; Heart in the Mandala, directed by Dechen Roder; Price of Knowledge, directed by Ugyen Wangdi; The Container, directed by Jamyang Dorji; and Lo Sum Choe Sum, directed by Dechen Roder.
COMPASSION IN ACTION—ON THE BUDDHA’S PATH: Second Chance, directed by Ida Eva Zielinska; Karuna, directed by Héctor Muniente; From Trials to Freedom, directed by Ida Eva Zielinska; The Peace Inside, directed by Daniel Ferrara; Compassionate Chaplaincy, directed by Ida Eva Zielinska; Ripples from Compassionate Hearts, directed by Ida Eva Zielinska; and Finding Liberation in Trauma, directed by Ida Eva Zielinska.
New talks feature Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg, Jan Willis, Joanna Macy, Roshi Joan Halifax, Lama Tsultrim Allione, and Qalvy Grainzvolt, along with reprises from BuddhaFest 2020 of talks with Matthieu Ricard, Tara Brach, Stephen Batchelor, Andrew Holecek, and Rick Hanson.
Musical performances include an encore of Tibetan Healing Mantras by Drukmo Gyal Dakini of Tibet, and an encore concert performance of The Tibetan Book of the Dead featuring acclaimed Tibetan singer-songwriter Tenzin Choegyal, with narration by Lama Surya Das.
BuddhaFest Online official website.
