In celebration of the ongoing 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament this week's DVD Spotlight is The Cup.
The Cup (Phörpa) is a 1999 comedy film directed by Khyentse Norbu. The plot involves two young football-crazed Tibetan refugees in a remote Himalayan monastery who desperately try to obtain a television for the monastery to watch the 1998 World Cup final.
The movie was entirely shot in the Tibetan refugee village Bir in India (Himachal Pradesh) (almost entirely between Chokling Gompa and Elu Road).
Director Khyentse Norbu is a Buddhist monk and is also the director of Travelers and Magicians.
An interesting related book some viewers may be interested in is How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
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