This year’s Lion’s Roar|BuddhaFest Online Festival runs July 15–August 26 with the theme of Celebrating Women in Buddhism. New talks, encore talks, and thirteen films programmed by our International Buddhist Film Festival (IBFF) plus two musical works are included.
The film program celebrates Women in Buddhism with a selection of works from seven nations about, and mostly by, women, as varied as the geography—from monastics to boxers, artists to activists, youth to elders, and from different Buddhist traditions.
The films are Blessings, by Victress Hitchcock; Dark Red Forest, by Jin Huaqing; Honeygiver Among the Dogs, by Dechen Roder; Karma, by Tsering Rhitar Sherpa; Khandro: A Woman’s Path of Peace, by Babeth Mondini VanLoo; Lucia Rijker: A Boxer, A Buddhist, by George Schouten; Meredith Monk—Inner Voice, by Babeth Mondini VanLoo; On the Road, by Lee Chang-jae; Sense of Urgency, by Patrick van Boekel; Tzu Chi: Doing Good in the World, by Babeth Mondini VanLoo; Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution, and Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo—The Great Mother, by Rosemary Rawcliffe; and Zenju’s Path, by Kathryn Golden.
The talks are by Tara Brach, Sharon Salzberg, Roshi Joan Halifax, Lama Palden Drolma, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Roshi Enkyō Pat O’Hara, Alisa Dennis, Ruth King in conversation with Pamela Ayo Yetunde, and encore talks by Joanna Macy, Lama Tsultrim Allione, JoAnna Hardy, and Sylvia Boorstein. There’s also a conversation between IBFF Executive Director Gaetano Kazuo Maida and author/professor Sharon A. Suh about women in Buddhist cinema.
Moments of Grace is a video of a special concert by classical pianist Maria Joao Pires with on stage commentary and guided meditation by Matthieu Ricard, and Tibetan Healing Mantras is a performance by Drukmo Gyal Dakini.
For the full program guide and to purchase a pass, visit BuddhaFest Online.
