Once again the Nepali political and cultural establishment is appeasing China, to the cost of Tibet and its just cause. The Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival will May 29th be screening (for free) a series of Chinese propaganda films under the banner of ‘Xizang (sic) Panorama’. The title is reflective of the purpose of these works – glossy films on Tibetan landscapes and wildlife that push the lie that Tibetans, the environment and its ecology are doing wonderfully under the ‘care’ of Chinese occupation. Cynical fabrications and deceptions that seek to manipulate and peddle disinformation.

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The film above features an ’emancipated Tibetan serf’ now where have we had that nonsense before? Ah yes! China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs!

Then we have another work which bathes in the claimed paradise of a Tibet under Chinese rule.

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An opposition is rightly growing to oppose the screening of this crude propaganda and we have written to two of Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival Advisory Board-Members about the serious and genuine concerns raised. One the secretary for the England-based Mount Everest Foundation, the other individual is an advisor with Machik a Washington DC located aid organization that assists Tibetans.

Our letters may be read here: https://tibettruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/lettertomef.pdf and .. https://tibettruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/lettertomachik.pdf

This post was originally published on Digital Activism In Support Of Tibetan Independence.