Dark Red Forest

A work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, this majestic documentary portrait details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan Plateau. With extraordinary intimacy, the camera nestles in with the women of the Yarchen Monastery, who, during the 100 coldest days of the year, learn about – and in some cases experience – profound matters of life and death, suffering and healing, karma and consequence. A clarifying work of faith and philosophical inquiry, set against a forbidding landscape.