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WOMEN BECOME THE HOT ZANSKAR by Marianne

MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL - Opening

Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 21:00 (Early Film)
Puy Saint Vincent 1400- Festival Hall (City Hall)

screening of "Becoming a Woman in Zanskar now" 85 minutes - Entry 3 euros


HOT Marianne is a native of Puy Saint Vincent. Anthropologist, she has chosen to dive into the Himalayan mountains of northern India in the beautiful valley of Zanskar. Live in immersion and blend into the local community to know to understand the lives of mountain people and in particular women's life is his goal. Several trips and years of work have helped build this extraordinary film which tells the story of two girls cross.

the heart of the Himalayas, in the village of Zanskar Karsha, two girls about to enter adulthood and Tenzin Palki. One will become a nun, the other is going to marry a man she did not choose. Palki is 25 and wants to become a nun. She wants to leave his family to return to the monastery of Dharam Sala. But his father is fiercely opposed to his project because he hoped that his daughter is working with him. Her friend Tenzin, 22, learns that her father had married a man from a neighboring village that she did not choose. Shocked, she will nevertheless be prepared for by his own marriage, during which she will symbolically removed by the friends of her future husband.


This is the final version previously aired on France 5. The projection of this evening at her home in Puy Saint Vincent is a special flavor that even the complete recipe for this evening will be donated to the association "Women in the Himalayas."

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(Sources France 5)