State of Statelessness has been selected for screening at the 32nd Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema (Festival international des cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul) in Vesoul, France. The festival — one of Europe’s most prestigious and long-standing platforms for Asian cinema.

We are delighted to announce that State of Statelessness, the first Tibetan-language anthology feature film from Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective, is now rolling out across cinemas in the United Kingdom.

Living Sanctuaries: Buddhist Monasteries of Zanskar is a collaborative film project by Drung Films and Studio Nyandak, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Folkstreams. The film was recently presented at Columbia University, marking an important academic and public engagement for the project.

he 2025 edition of DFM — Drung Filmmaking Mentorship has concluded, marking another cycle of focused mentorship and short-film production within the Drung ecosystem. This year, two participants developed and completed original short films under the guidance of filmmaker and former NYU professor Hiroshi Sunairi.

This summer, the vibrant arts scene at Ebertplatz in Cologne became a space where voices from diverse cultures, continents, and lived experiences converged to reflect on the pressing questions of our time.

In May 2025, a small but important milestone took place in Dharamshala. For the first time since Tibetans settled in exile in 1959, a Tibetan-language feature film was released theatrically in the town that has been home to the community for decades. State of Statelessness, produced by Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective, screened at Gold Cinema to a fully sold-out audience.

Tibetan-Australian musician Tenzin Choegyal has been nominated for a 2025 Queensland Music Award in the Music for Screen category for his track “Tenzin Sings with Nightingales”.

This month, Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective represented Tibetan cinema at the 29th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) with the world premiere of State of Statelessness, selected in BIFF’s A Window on Asian Cinema section.

Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective participated in Transfer Station – The Missing Shadow, a multidisciplinary exhibition held in Cologne, Germany, as part of the broader Inviting Borders project. The exhibition examined borders as lived experiences and conceptual spaces — sites shaped by movement, memory, identity, and cultural negotiation — through film, installation, and visual art.

In December 2020, a landmark initiative took shape that expanded the digital horizons of Tibetan cinema. Tibet Films Online was launched as an experimental streaming platform dedicated to showcasing films made by Tibetan filmmakers living in exile. The project was organized by Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective in collaboration with the Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF)‍.