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Tashi and the Monk

40 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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A Tibetan Buddhist monk, driven by his own history of suffering, builds a home for at-risk children in the Indian Himalayas, where kids arrive from backgrounds of poverty, abandonment, and family breakdown. The film follows daily life inside the community he has built on principles of compassion and mutual care, showing how staff and older children absorb new arrivals into a routine of shared meals, schooling, and ritual. The arrival of a young girl named Tashi becomes the film's central test case: her anger and grief push the community's patience and methods further than they have been pushed before, and the camera stays close as caregivers work through setbacks rather than presenting easy breakthroughs. Scenes move between the monk's own reflections on why he started the project and the practical, sometimes exhausting work of running it. The film treats healing as slow and uneven rather than triumphant, following Tashi's rocky adjustment as the clearest evidence of what the community can and cannot fix.