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Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, BLINDSIGHT accompanies the exciting ascent of six Tibetan teenagers up the 8,000-metre-high Lhakpa Ri. This undertaking seems all the more incredible because the Tibetan children are blind and are accompanied by a blind teacher. The expedition leads the children out of a life with the stigma of blindness and gives them a new future.
The initiator of „Climbing Blind“ is the blind German teacher Sabriye Tenberken (founder of Braille Without Borders; 2005 Federal Cross of Merit; 2006 National Friendship Award from the government of the People’s Republic of China; 2006 Mother Teresa Award. Books by S. Tenberken: “My Path Leads to Tibet. The Blind Children of Lhasa“; „Tashi’s New World“; „The Seventh Year. From Tibet to India“; „Strong Girls – Strong Women“), who founded the first school for the blind in Tibet and strengthens the children’s self-confidence there through education and the experience of community and shows them that blindness does not have to mean being excluded from life.
BLINDSIGHT won the Berlinale Audience Award in the Panorama section in 2007, was nominated for the British Independent Film Award in 2006 and won the audience award at the AFI Film Festival Los Angeles in 2006 and the audience award for Best Documentary at the Palm Springs Film Festival 2007.
BLINDSIGHT by Lucy Walker was produced by Sybill Robson-Orr. The film opens throughout Germany on January 10, 2008, distributed by TAO Cinemathek through Filmwelt Verleihagentur.
Further links:
- Hof International Film Festival
