On A Tightrope (0+)
Norway, Canada, 2006, colour, 60 min.
Director: Petr Lom
Director: Petr Lom
The Xinjiang Province in China is one of the worst places in the world when it comes to human rights abuse. The muslim Uyghurs are systematically oppressed. At least 10,000 have been imprisoned, suspected of separatism, and hundreds have been executed. This film follows four children at a government orphanage who are learning the ancient Uyghur tradition of Dawaz, tightrope walking.
AWARDS
Watch Doc Award, Warszawa, 2006; Doc Short Film Grand Prix, Chicago International Documentary Film Festival, 2007.
Petr Lom
Petr Lom
was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1968. He grew up in Canada and received his Ph. D. in political philosophy from Harvard University in 1997. He gave up his career in the University in 2004 to pursue a full-time career as a documentary filmmaker.
FILMOGRAPHY
«Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan», 2004; «On a Tihtrope», 2006.
Norway, Canada, 2006, colour, 60 min.
Director: Petr Lom
Director: Petr Lom
The Xinjiang Province in China is one of the worst places in the world when it comes to human rights abuse. The muslim Uyghurs are systematically oppressed. At least 10,000 have been imprisoned, suspected of separatism, and hundreds have been executed. This film follows four children at a government orphanage who are learning the ancient Uyghur tradition of Dawaz, tightrope walking.
AWARDS
Watch Doc Award, Warszawa, 2006; Doc Short Film Grand Prix, Chicago International Documentary Film Festival, 2007.