Tana Bana

This event has been cancelled due to the weather warning in place this evening. We will re-schedule again in the new year.

Everyone is welcome to join us in the temple on Friday 6th December for this special screening of Tana Bana, a film by Pat Murphy and co-produced by Annie Dibble.

It is the story of the traditional versus modernity amidst the city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges in India. And yet there is more to it than that. It doesn’t sit still; more it meanders through the town and picks up on areas such as the changing roles of women in this world and implicitly the prevailing western attitudes towards the Muslim and Hindu people.

Tana Bana offers intimate access to an unknown world. Filled with activity, it’s not an “action” film in the usual sense. Although the pace is contemplative, it’s not an elegy for a dying way of life as much as a dynamic series of questions on issues that affect all of us right this very minute. Questions around the future of cities, the nature of work and the nature of childhood and education and the ways in which men and women relate to each other.

Fundraiser

All proceeds will go towards the sacred decoration of the Dzogchen Beara temple.