What Remains of Us

“In the face of injustice there are three possible positions: he who fights, he who submits and he who stands and fights solely with non-violent means,” the primary subject in this film says, recalling Gandhi's tenet. A Canadian woman of Tibetan origin travels to her fatherland and takes with her a recorded message of Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, in order to show it to the Tibetan people who have been oppressed since 1950. Most of them have never seen the image or heard the voice of their spiritual leader. Their reactions are deeply emotional and disturbing. Youngsters do not even know exactly when they lost their freedom (in the year 2000, says one girl), what happened and how, and in the meantime, they are forgetting their language and tradition. Owing to the archival footage, especially the powerful shot of a man standing still in front of approaching military tanks, the Dalai Lama's message of the necessity to resist non-violently and be firm in the passive struggle becomes even stronger. Six million Tibetan people are still trying to preserve hope. With her very modest video equipment, the Canadian-Tibetan woman travels to all corners of the country to spread the word and strengthen the faith, capturing the reactions of people in a documentary that disturbs and astonishes.