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The Only Son

Director: 
Simonka De Jong
Duration: 
78Min
Year of production: 
2012
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Cinematography: 
Wiro Felix
Sound: 
Martijn van Haalen
Editing: 
Menno Boerema
Production: 
IDTV Docs
Synopsis: 

Pema is a Tibetan whose plans for the future are being thwarted by his past. He is his parents' only son, and they want him to return to the village of his birth, marry a local girl and take care of them. He and his sisters spent their youth in a children's home in the city, while his parents stayed behind in their remote Himalayan village. Together with his sisters, one of whom was adopted by a Dutch couple and grew up in the Netherlands, Pema goes to visit the distant village. After a warm reunion, tensions quickly rise: the parents expect their only son to accept his responsibility, get married and tend to their land. But Pema can't imagine life in this isolated place devoid of computers or books, and he also wants to save his sisters from a similar fate.

 

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