Molom – The Shaman and the Child
Editions Jean-Claude Lattès
One day, Molom the Shaman, the memory man, the mirror man, the one who transforms into an eagle or a pilgrim, goes to find Yonden, a child lost in the vast Mongolian land, living among the wolves, and takes him under his wing.
While roaming the steppe, Yonden experiences life under the benevolent eye of his new master. During this long journey of simple adventures and essential experiences, Molom gradually gives Yonden the keys to knowledge, so that later he can live a “good” life. Will he be a monk, a shaman or a nomad? No matter, Molom will have given little Yönden the opportunity to choose his own life in accordance with his innermost being.
Seven women in Tibet
In the footsteps of Alexandra David Néel
Editions Albin Michel
In the aftermath of the events of the summer of 1989, film director Marie Jaoul de Poncheville took her team of seven women to China and Tibet:
a 7,000-kilometer expedition in the footsteps of Alexandra David-Néel, through the most remote provinces and mountains of the Amnye Machen, a magical and sacred region. Marie Jaoul de Poncheville recounts the thousand and one adventures, both dangerous and funny, of this long journey and the exciting, difficult shoot that ended with her and her producer Franz-Cristoph Giercke being placed under house arrest for three months in Chengdu, and the rushes of her film being seized by the Chinese authorities.
The film premiered in Paris at the Cinéma La Pagode at the end of 1990, presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
