Film
Balloon (12A)
Discovery Screening: Tickets £5
Come and watch a bold new independent film for just a fiver.
Dir. Pema Tseden, China, 2019, 102 mins, subtitled. Cast. Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso.
In Tibetan director Tseden’s multi award-winning Balloon, a family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will. Dargye and Drolkar’s two boisterous sons have blown up their parents condoms like balloons. Not only does this outrage the entire village in Tibet in the early 1980s, but more practically: they have no more condoms. The shepherd couple already have three sons, and as China has recently introduced its one-child policy, they can’t have any more. This is a drily comic approach to the subject, captured in deceptively simple handheld footage full of implicit symbolism.
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Come and watch a bold new independent film for just a fiver.
Dir. Pema Tseden, China, 2019, 102 mins, subtitled. Cast. Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso.
In Tibetan director Tseden’s multi award-winning Balloon, a family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will. Dargye and Drolkar’s two boisterous sons have blown up their parents condoms like balloons. Not only does this outrage the entire village in Tibet in the early 1980s, but more practically: they have no more condoms. The shepherd couple already have three sons, and as China has recently introduced its one-child policy, they can’t have any more. This is a drily comic approach to the subject, captured in deceptively simple handheld footage full of implicit symbolism.
Event sold out?
Email info@plymouthartscinema.org to be added to the waiting list. Please indicate your name, date and time of the event, number of tickets you require, and the best phone number to contact you on. We'll be in touch if tickets become available.
Accessibility
We want our cinema to be as inclusive as possible. Access information is available here. Please email info@plymouthartscinema.org or phone 01752 206114 if you have any questions.
