Drapchi Elegy (2017) is a film. Directed by Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin. Starring Namdol Lhamo.
· 17 min · 2017
A portrait of Namdol Lhamo, a middle-aged Tibetan woman who lives in Brussels and works as a housekeeper in an old people's home. Lhamo is one of the famous Drapchi 14, a group of nuns imprisoned in the notorious Drapchi prison of Lhasa in the early 1990s for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation.