24.5.: Documentary (Czech): Schools in the Himalayas

Dokumentary screenin and discussion with the author Ivana Martáková about the filming and the Czech-Ladakhi school exchange program.

Ladakh is the last place in the world with an unsuppressed Tibetan culture and is located in the northernmost part of India in the Himalayas. In this documentary we present three Ladakhi schools built under the peaks of the majestic mountains, whose principals reveal their basic educational principles, their views on science and modernization or their cooperation with the Czech non-profit organization “Brontosaurus in the Himalayas”. What is the basis of a “good education” for Ladakhis? The happiness of a Ladakhi does not only depend on the amount of knowledge acquired.

Language: Czech
Produced by Sandiva Production Agency, Silesian University in Opava, Multimedia Techniques
Director: Ivana Martáková
Editing: Jan Bartoš
Cinematography: Ondřej Smékal, Radomír Štefka, Ondřej Trampler