Delamu (Angel of Peace) (PG)

Director Cyfarwyddwr Tian Zhuangzhuang
China Tsieina, 2004,
1 hour awr 50 minutes munud, subtitles isdeitlau

A remarkable documentary that follows the highest and most perilous of the world's ancient trading routes, the Tea-Horse Road that climbs from Western Yunnan through the Himalayas into Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. For more than two thousand years tea was carried through the mountains on mules. Delamu follows this traditional route mixing spectacularly beautiful images of the wild mountains (as you would expect from the director of Horse Thief ) with interviews with the inhabitants of the remote villages along the way. The interviews reveal the ethnic and religious diversity of these mountain people amongst them a Nua woman of 104, a young Tibetan who shares a wife with his older brother, and a Christian pastor from the Lisu tribe. A vision of a remote corner of the world and of its people that is rich in wonder.

Dogfen am lwybr masnach mwyaf hynafol ac uchaf y byd, Ffordd y Ceffyl Te. Am fwy na dwy fil o flynyddoedd, dyma'r ffordd y cariwyd te drwy'r mynyddoedd. Ffilm wyllt a phrydferth am fywyd anghysbell sy'n anhysbys i'r rhan fwyaf ohonom ni.

"Fascinating beyond words"
Tony Rayns, London Film Festival

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