Tenzin

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Tenzin

2023

1h 14m

Drama

Fantasy

Mystery & Thriller

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Tenzin is a young Tibetan man living in Toronto, whose older brother self-immolates as a form of nonviolent protest of the treatment of Tibetans living under the current Chinese occupation. Tenzin struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother while navigating a life with one foot in Western youth culture and the other, somewhat reluctantly in the devoted community of his fellow exiled Tibetans.

Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

Toronto’s Little Tibet deserves its big moment in the spotlight. But Tenzin’s glow is ultimately too dim, flickering on and off until it simply fades.

Mar 15, 2023

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Rachel West

That Shelf

[T]here is no doubt that newcomers, immigrants, and first-generation Canadians will connect to the feeling of being caught between Western ideals and their traditional culture.

Mar 17, 2023

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

Tenzin describes the experience of trauma viscerally, and plainly, and how oppression has cursed the world throughout human history, via a confused young man. Wrenching.

Rated: 2/4

Mar 17, 2023

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Liam Lacey

Original Cin

Reality and illusion become muddled in this film about a young Tibetan man in Toronto, grieving the self-immolation of his older brother.

Rated: C

Mar 16, 2023

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Andrew Parker

The Gate

Heavy on atmosphere and tragedy, but disappointingly light on depth, the Canadian produced, Tibetan diaspora set drama Tenzin is basic and reductive, but not lacking in food for thought.

Rated: 5/10

Mar 15, 2023

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Tenzin is a young Tibetan man living in Toronto, whose older brother self-immolates as a form of nonviolent protest of the treatment of Tibetans living under the current Chinese occupation. Tenzin struggles to come to terms with the loss of his brother while navigating a life with one foot in Western youth culture and the other, somewhat reluctantly in the devoted community of his fellow exiled Tibetans.

Director: Michael LeBlanc, Joshua Reichmann
Producer: Julie Baldassi, Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith, Laura Perlmutter, Brian Robertson, Nick Sorbara
Screenwriter: Michael LeBlanc, Joshua Reichmann
Production Co: Younger Daughter Films, Low End, REDLABdigital, Deluxe Studio
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Tibetan
Runtime: 1h 14m