SOUL ON A STRING

SYNOPSIS: After a bolt of lightning fells the deer he has just killed, a hardened Tibetan cowboy named Tabei discovers a sacred stone lodged in the animal’s mouth — and finds himself compelled toward a redemptive pilgrimage to deliver it to a distant mountain monastery. Pursued across the vast Tibetan plateau by vengeful brothers seeking blood justice, and shadowed by two wandering strangers who may be figures out of myth, director Zhang Yang fuses western-style action with Buddhist parable in a visually staggering road movie. Equal parts spiritual odyssey and pulse-quickening chase, Soul on a String is a hypnotic, genre-bending epic shot across some of the most breathtaking landscapes in world cinema.