A thoroughly enjoyable film, about a group of Tibetan monks in northern India trying to catch the 1998 World Cup on television (TV is not allowed into the monastery, so they have to sneaked out to watch the matches in a local bar, until the abbot finally relents and lets them watch the games). The director is a true-life lama (!), and the movie is somewhat amateurish at parts, but this is easily compensated by the originality of the story, and by the appeal of the actors (who, apparently, are monks themselves). Far more entertaining that other movies about Tibet made by westerners (like Little Buddha, Kundun, Seven Years in Tibet, etc.)
