Pema Tseden

Enjoy Your Journey (2026)

In 2003, "SARS" quickly and fiercely spread to entire China. Everyone was afraid, staying home like their lives were stopped. Fu Zhen, a senior girl who is desperate for unrequited love, has a lively and strong, but lacks a survival instinct. A Hong Kong e ...

Tashi (2026)

While still in elementary school, young Tashi rescued a stray dog. But the stray dog is adopted and named Tashi, which makes Tashi the laughing stock of his classmates. So little Tashi plans to kill the dog Tashi, but accidentally hits him blind. Tashi has ...

The Boys and the Donkey (2024)

A group of young Tibetan boys seek retribution against a donkey that harmed one of their own, only to encounter escalating complications. ...

The Second Child (2024)

Meng Qin's daily life revolves around taking care of her 11-year-old son who has a rare genetic disease. Already four months pregnant, Meng Qin is both hesitant to tell her son about the pregnancy and fears for the health of the second child. ...

Kong and Jigme (2024)

Lao Kong came to work in Tibet for the first time and needed translator urgently. By chance, he found Jiumei, who had studied in the mainland. Although they didn't understand each other at first, they eventually became lifelong friends. ...

Circus at Dusk (2023)

A folk performer brings his animals to the streets. Two thugs' unreasonable demands make everything more absurd. The film shows a circus in a gradual "mutilation" and portrays a man struggling in his life. ...

One and Four (2023)

It's the late 1990s in a remote Tibetan forest where poaching is widespread. A ranger is visited by one man after another, all strange... ...

Snow Leopard (2023)

A snow leopard breaks into the sheep pen of a nomad and kills nine rams. Father and son then argue: the son insists on killing the snow leopard, but the father insists on releasing it. ...

The Great Distance Delivers Crane (2022)

In a Tibetan village on the Qinghai plateau, a young boy, Dorje, and his sister, Kelsang, live with their grandmother. Having lost their mother at an early age, the siblings long for their father's company, but he is always busy and rarely comes home. One ...

One Man Funeral (2021)

Zhusheng's father suddenly died under the watchful eyes of the old dog. The dog witnessed the whole process of Luo's arrangement of his father's funeral. When Luo is embalming his father's body, outside in the forest comes a gunshot. As the forest ranger, ...

A Song for You (2020)

In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs – young Ngawang leaves behind a nomadic existence on the Tibetan plateau for big city Lhasa nightclubs. His dream is to record an album and be heard around the cou ...

God Bless You (2019)

Xiao Henan, who first entered the society, wanted to have a love but was injured by work. The webmaster monkey is a recidivist who is very uncomfortable with the work and loses his job because of the contradiction with the boss. The printing house owner wa ...

Jinpa (2019)

Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he's going to kill the man who murdered his father. ...

Tharlo (2015)

Tharlo is an orphan. Now grown up, he makes a living as a sheep herder in the village. He has grown a ponytail, so people simply call him "Ponytail", since nobody remembers his real name anyway. Tharlo has a remarkable memory. He remembers so many things, ...

The Sacred Arrow (2014)

Two villages in Tibet have competed in archery for a thousand years. This is the story of the competition between Dradong and Nyima who each represent their village. As the story opens, Nyima has won the annual competition and is in love with Dradong's you ...

Old Dog (2011)

A story of an aged sheepherder, his gruff grown son (who's having trouble conceiving a child with his wife) and the old man's Tibetan mastiff hound – a highly prized breed, much sought after by urban Chinese – whose existence is imperiled from all side ...

Flares Wafting in 1983 (2008)

The Silent Holy Stones (2005)

A young Tibetan monk goes back home for the New Year's celebrations. Fascinated by television, he wants to bring his family's television to the monastery to show it to his master. ...

The Weatherman’s Legacy (2005)

The Grassland (2004)

Pema's graduation film made for Beijing Film Academy, Set in rural Tibet ; it is a timeless allegory of an old nomadic couple searching for a stolen yak. ...

The Silent Holy Stone (2002)

Talking Heads 2021 (2021)

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as "Who are you?" and "What do you want?". ...