Rangzen is a film about a 8 year old Tibetan boy, Tashi - growing up as a refugee in a small hill town in Indian - the exiled home of the Dalai Lama. The film maps a crucial day in his life when he stumbles on his exiled refugee identity. When he's told at school that there is an invisible 'R' written on his forehead - Tashi goes on a quest to unravel this mystery. He discovers that this place where he's born and brought up is not his home. In fact he belongs to a nation that does not exist on the world map.
Reviews
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Blistering performances.