Dharamshala — Chinese government published propaganda articles and videos about Tibet after the Tibetan film “Four Rivers, Six Ranges” premiered at the 54th International Film Festival in Rotterdam on February 1, 2025. Chinese social media accounts also attacked the Festival and the social media account of the director of the Tibetan film. The film is about Tibetan freedom fighters fought against Chinese armies in the 1950s, to protect Tibet from Chinese invasion.
"Four Rivers, Six Ranges", a film about Tibetan resistance against China, premiered at the 54th International Film Festival in Rotterdam on February 1 and 4, 2025, the tickets were sold out within few days.
The director Shenpenn Skymsar of the Tibetan film "Four Rivers, Six Ranges" (Chushi Gangdruk) wrote on February 4, 2025, that Chinese people paid by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) created fake social media accounts and attacked the Rotterdam International Film Festival and his social media. In addition, the Chinese government uploaded a propaganda video, a day after the world premiere of “Four Rivers, Six Ranges” in Rotterdam on February 1, 2025.
Shenpenn Khymsar wrote on his social media that ‘the movie “Four Rivers, Six Ranges” is dedicated to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday and Tibet has never been and will never be part of China’. The Chinese authorities then published a propaganda article about Tibet on the Chinese state media website, after the "Four Rivers, Six Ranges" showed in the Rotterdam. The Chinese government responded that “His claim is utterly groundless and distorts historical reality”, as the Chinese authorities usually do with those who say something about Tibet.
Director Shenpenn Khymsar wrote, "How pathetic can the CCP be?, It renaming my ancestral and sacred land of Tibet to "Xizang", such cowards and bullies. As one of my dialogues in the film says “As long as there is a single Tibetan alive, this fight will go on”.
According to Director Shenpenn Khymsar, this film is about how Chushi Gangdruk was founded and how the Tibetan armies fought against the Chinese armies when they invaded Tibet. How the Tibetan armies of Chushi Gangdruk protected and helped His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama escape into exile in India.
The "Four Rivers, Six Ranges" based on the Book “Flight at the cuckoo’s behest: The Life and Times of a Tibetan Freedom Fighter” by Kunga Samten Dewatshang. The Film was shot in the Himalayan Mountains of Mustang, Nepal. Produced by Dorjee Wangdi Dewatshang and written, produced, music and directed by Shenpenn Khymsar. Main actors Tenzin Dhondup and Thupten Chukhatsang and other actors including Tenzin Rigzin, Tashi Kalden, TEn B. Jigmey, Palden Dikhang, Madon Nyima, Pema Tsamchoe, Tenzein Choden, Namjaytsang Abukarma, Sherap Gyaltsen and Tadming Arts etc.
Chushi Gangdruk (Four Rivers, Six Ranges) was officially founded on June 16, 1958 on the initiative of Andrug Gompo Tashi and Tibetans who were determined to fight against the Chinese armies when they invaded Tibet. The Chushi Gangdruk fought the People's Liberation Army from 1956 to 1974, until the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) stopped its support for the guerrilla group.
