UK Premiere: ‘Four Rivers Six Ranges’ – A Gripping Portrait of Tibetan Resistance Comes to the Big Screen

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London, 19th June 2025  | Tsering Passang

An extraordinary story of defiance and devotion to a homeland under siege is coming to London for its UK premiere. On Saturday, 21st June, audiences will have the rare opportunity to witness the acclaimed historical drama Four Rivers Six Ranges, an English-language feature film that breathes life into one of the most pivotal, yet underrepresented, chapters of 20th-century Central Asian history – the Tibetan resistance against Communist China’s brutal invasion in the 1950s.

Directed by Shenpenn Khymsar and based on Dorjee Wangdi Dewatshang’s powerful memoir Flight at the Cuckoo’s Behest, the film takes viewers deep into the heart of Kham and Amdo – Tibet’s eastern frontiers – where ordinary civilians rose up in defence of their spiritual leader, t...

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