Missing in Tibet

The film tells the story of Tibetan Ngawang Choephel, unjustly sentenced by the Chinese in 1996 to eighteen years in prison.

The protagonist, an ethnomusicology scholar on scholarship at the prestigious Middlebury College in Vermont, had returned to his homeland to document and then preserve traditional songs and dances performed by children and old men from that region, in traditional costumes.

This was his only crime when he was arrested and tried in the midst of his research.

Using precisely those few recordings he made before his arrest, the documentary makes us share in the anguish of his friends and family over this absurd sentence, which has not yet been clarified, so contrasting with the serenity and peace of the songs that flow from the hearts of the Tibetan protagonists.