German Premiere Screening "Four Rivers Six Ranges" by Shenpenn Khymsar
As part of the Berlin Freedom Week 2025, the Association of Tibetans in Germany and the Tibet Initiative Deutschland e.V. present the German premiere and press screening of the new film by Tibetan director Shenpenn Khymsar.
Four Rivers Six Ranges (2025) is a visually stunning and deeply emotional historical action drama about Tibet’s struggle for freedom. (Runtime: 2h 12min // Original version)
Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Venue: Filmtheater Colosseum, Schönhauser Allee 123, 10437 Berlin (Indoor)
Time: 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Tickets: €12
Trailer:www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO45Tm-TRiQ
Following the screening, there will be a live Q&A with director Shenpenn Khymsar, who will join remotely from the United States. He will discuss the making of the film, his artistic vision, and the continuing significance of Tibet’s freedom movement today — a movement that endures through peaceful, nonviolent means and continues to inspire people around the world.
About the Film
As the People’s Liberation Army sweeps across Tibet, slaughtering monks and crushing all forms of resistance, Gonpo Tashi gathers a band of men to take up arms.
“Our land, our religion, our culture, and our precious Dalai Lama are all in grave danger,” he warns as volunteers from across Tibet rally together.
It is 1958. Under the ruthless command of General Tan, the Chinese army tightens its control over the land, suppressing protests and destroying monasteries. Against the advice of the collaborating Tibetan government, Gonpo Tashi and his comrades take up the fight to defend their nation — convinced that freedom can only be preserved through resistance.
While Tibetan resistance and nationalism have often been portrayed in film from the perspective of exile and suffering under oppression, Shenpenn Khymsar’s new work offers a different and equally vital perspective: the determined armed resistance against unlawful occupation.
It tells of a time when monks traded their red robes for rifles — when courage, solidarity, honor, and devotion to a shared cause were carried onto the battlefield.
