86 centimetres at 2012 environmental film festival washington dc
86 centimetres will have it’s US premiere at the 2012 environmental film festival in Washington DC. 86 centimetres will be screened on Sunday 18 March 2012 at the national museum of natural history in the nation’s capital.
86 centimetres is a film about Bhutan facing the indisputable effects of global warming; melting ice is weakening the walls of the Himalayan glacial lakes. 350 men and women walked 9 days up to Lunana, high in the mountains, the home of gods and spirits. They put up camp for three months and manually dig an outlet to reduce the volume of the waterlevel in the Thorthormi glacial lake and thus prevent the lake from bursting.
Tashi, a 21 year old farmer, enrols on the gruelling expedition, determined to secure his unborn child’s future and to help prevent a terrible disaster.
86 centimetres follows Tashi from the day he leaves for lake Thorthormi till his re-union, three months later, with his family.
Tshering Gyeltshen and Peter Jan van der Burgh – film directors, Henk de Jong – producer. 86 centimetres is financed by bhutan+partners.
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