Inside the Making of the New Red Pine Documentary
An interview with Dancing with the Dead director Ward Serrill
Film & TV
Growing Up Ambedkarite
How the service-oriented Buddhist culture of B. R. Ambedkar influenced feminist and Bahujani documentary filmmaker Jyoti Nisha.
The Zen of ‘Dune’
How Frank Herbert’s interest in the dharma went on to inform his best-known work
In Conversation with Shrihari Sathe, the Curator of Tricycle’s Buddhist Film Festival
The filmmaker and producer talks connective threads, diverse perspectives, and what it means for a film to have an independent spirit.
Talking ‘Tukdam’ with Documentary Filmmaker Donagh Coleman
Tricycle chats with the director ahead of the film’s screening at the 2024 Buddhist Film Festival
A Lie That Is Also True: Birth, Death, and Motherhood in ‘The Boy and the Heron’
How lessons from the Mata Sutta show up in the latest film from Studio Ghibli
Wim Wenders on the Meaning of His New Film ‘Perfect Days’
The movie has been nominated for Best International Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Untying the Knot in ‘The Monk and the Gun’
In his latest feature, filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji creates a wry allegory for a rapidly modernizing Bhutan.
Animal Liberation in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
How the latest Guardians of the Galaxy installment teaches compassion for all beings, even the nonhuman ones
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