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Dolkar is being embraced


Dolkar on the ice


Dolkar waves at the camera


The girls playing in their dresses


The hockeyteam


Thin Ice directors comment

As a former ice hockey player I immediately fell in love with Dolkar and her friends, when I saw the pictures of them playing ice hockey.

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Director Håkan Berthas


The director Håkan Berthas has been working as a photographer (Film, television and still) for the past twenty years and has made many documentary films such as Nabila, Big Mike, Mika, Assyrian and Swedish sorcerers.

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Thin Ice english synopsis, 50 words

Dolkar, a young Buddhist woman from Ladakh in the Himalayas wants to play ice hockey. She and her friends tries too make ice to skate on, get equipment and coaching. But the biggest problem is that the men in charge don’t think women ice hockey is important.  

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Thin Ice english synopsis, 300 words

Dolkar, a young Buddhist woman from Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas wants too play ice hockey. She and her girlfriends in school have to create all that is needed from scratch, everything from ice hockey skates and sticks to the very ice they skate on. When they want to participate in the annual Hockey tournament they face opposition. The men in charge, the board of the winter sport club prefer ice dance from the girls, not ice hockey. When the girls are not allowed to take part in the competition they protest and Dolkar becomes their natural leader.

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Watching from a tree top


Skating on line


Monks watching the game