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DAUGHTER OF THE LIGHT

GUANG ZHI ZI

By Khashem GYAL, Miyuki MATSUO

ARTICLE FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Family - Completed 2020

13-year-old Metok Karpo lives in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans, her divorced parents are alive and well, leaving her to be raised by her maternal grandparents, who make her school-holidays hell by continually denouncing her father.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Family, First film, Documentary
- Countries
- CHINA, JAPAN
- Languages
- CHINESE
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 99 mn
- Director(s)
- Khashem GYAL, Miyuki MATSUO
- Producer(s)
- Rinchen DORJE, Miyuki MATSUO
- Synopsis
- In Tibet, divorce is becoming a social problem. As a new wave of IT such as dating on smartphones is sweeping through the area, traditional life starts to collapse. Especially the phenomenon of parents abandoning her children for remarriage is prevalent.
  Although 13-year-old Metok Karpo lives in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans, her divorced parents are alive and well, leaving her to be raised by her
  maternal grandparents, who make her school-holidays hell by continually denouncing her father. While her mother unsuccessfully remarries, Metok embarks on a journey to find her father in her native grassland. Discovering his happy life with a new family, she is troubled by complex feelings she can only express through her imaginative drawings.
  This adolescent's quest is set against a society transformed by online social networks that accelerate divorce even in a Tibet shaped by nomadic family traditions.