A documentary by Harald Pokieser, Austria 2006
(In English, 52 min.)

Once the “aristocrat” of the jungles of Southeast Asia, today the tiger is one of the most endangered species in the world. Three of the eight subspecies are already extinct; only 500 to 2,000 tigers still inhabit the intact jungle regions of south China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Wat Pa Luangta Bua is a monastery of meditation, situated far away from any civilization, about 120 miles west of Bangkok, where silence, peace and harmony reign. This documentary portrays the harmonious relationship between predators and humans without disregarding the monk's maxim that "A tiger will always be a tiger, even if it feeds from the hand. It will always be a wild animal."

March 19 | 8:00 pm | Embassy of Austria
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In cooperation with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org