The first director ever to film a movie entirely in Tibetan on the ground in China, Pema Tseden, now has another award-winning flick to his name: Old Dog. It captured the Grand Prize at the Tokyo Filmex in late 2011, and will premier on the West Coast of the US in Los Angeles on May 11, 2012. The director will be on hand for a post-screening Q & A.

“Old Dog,” writes Nicola Davidson in Tibet New Wave for the South China Morning Post, “is a story centred on an aged Tibetan Mastiff. The creature has caused a rift between a father who dresses in Tibetan Garb and rides a horse to town, and a son, an alcoholic who rides a motorbike.”