Story of movie The Cup 1999 Film : The Cup (?????? or Phörpa) is a 1999 Tibetan-language film directed by Khyentse Norbu. The plot involves two young football-crazed Tibetan refugee novice monks in a remote Himalayan monastery in India who desperately try to obtain a television for the monastery to watch the 1998 World Cup final.
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| Directed by | Khyentse Norbu |
| Produced by | Jeremy Thomas Raymond Steiner Malcolm Watson |
| Written by | Khyentse Norbu |
| Starring | Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling |
| Distributed by | Palm Pictures Fine Line Features (USA) Festival Media (USA DVD) |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Bhutan |
| Language | Tibetan |
The movie was shot in the Tibetan refugee village Bir in India (Himachal Pradesh) (almost entirely between Chokling Gompa and Elu Road).
Producer Jeremy Thomas had developed a relationship with Norbu when he was an advisor on Bertolucci's Little Buddha. Thomas later remembered his experience making the film:
The director Khyentse Norbu is a Tibetan Lama who went to NYC film school, who wanted to make a movie, and I had become friendly with him. There was this charming story, which was a teaching for him but a story for everyone else, about little monks and the World Cup. It was shown in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, and we brought a lot of the Tibetans to the screening and it was well received and sold all over the world. It was a very happy story for everybody involved.
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The Cup was released to DVD on November 13, 2007 in North America by Festival Media (IBFF). The DVD was mastered from a new direct-to-digital transfer from the original film, and includes a bonus documentary entitled Inside The Cup, featuring the director discussing the film, cinema in general and Buddhist philosophy, along with outtakes from the film. There is also a director's commentary audio track.
- List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Bhutanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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