They Are One Hundred Years Old

They Are One Hundred Years Old

2016

A Tibetan documentary about a boy from Amdo province who is reincarnated as his grandfather. Follows him as he moves from the grasslands to Beijing and becomes a rapper.

Directed by Dukar Tserang

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