Tea-Horse Road Series: Delamu

Winding through variegated landscapes of staggering beauty, Chinese helmer Tian Zhuangzhuang (Blue Kite) accompanies a caravan as it travels down the Tea Horse Road, the highest and most perilous of the world's ancient routes. A film of complex contradictions beneath its surface serenity, Delamu makes stopovers at isolated villages along the Nijiang River Valley between China and Tibet (the actual geographical inspiration for the mythical "Shangri-La") to give expression to what may be a vanishing way of life. ...