The result of 18 months’ unprecedented access to the Dalai Lama in his exile home in Dharamsala, Northern India, The Unwinking Gaze offers a unique portrait of the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader and his recent working life.

The result of 18 months’ unprecedented access to the Dalai Lama in his exile home in Dharamsala, Northern India, The Unwinking Gaze offers a unique portrait of the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader and his recent working life.

With the events that swept across Tibet earlier this year, this films presents a timely insight into the Tibet issue, following the Dalai Lama as he has to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the political reality of the Tibetan situation, seeking to lead the Tibetan people towards a peaceful resolution with China.For more information on SAMA Festival events please see www.samafestival.org