Letters from Tibet

Kunsang Kyirong sets her tale of theft, betrayal, and something like magical redemption in a Parkdale housing complex.

A young boy comes to terms with grief, but the ice cracks beneath, as surfaces of the past reform once again.

A young mechanic named Doug is caught in the middle of a draught. He encounters a washed up shark, hungry and dying. Doug strikes a bargain with the shark in exchange for sparing his life, he will turn it into a car. They drive around killing humans, quenching the shark’s hunger.

This whimsical tale employs fluidly animated charcoal drawings to relate the stories of three Tibetan children who live in the town of Tezu, Arunachal Pradesh. Faced with a death in the family, each child expresses themself differently, via their relationship with the Yarlong Tsangpo river—the upper stream of the Brahmaputra, and the longest waterway in Tibet.

Groups of Tibetan immigrants from small communities work in a Canadian laundry facility- mostly strangers to each other, but all part of a broader wave of Tibetan immigration that took place roughly between 2011 and 2017. With their social circles suddenly expanded, new romantic entanglements arise.