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{{ infobox film<br />
| image = The Cup film.jpg<br />
| caption = DVD cover<br />
| writer = [[Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche|Khyentse Norbu]]<br />
| starring = [[Orgyen Tobgyal]], [[Neten Chokling]]<br />
| director = [[Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche|Khyentse Norbu]]<br />
| producer = [[Jeremy Thomas]]<br/>Raymond Steiner<br/>Malcolm Watson<br />
| studio =<br />
| distributor = [[Palm Pictures]]<br>[[Fine Line Features]] (USA)<br>Festival Media (USA DVD)<br />
| released = {{film date|1999|8|29|df=yes}}<br />
| runtime = 93 minutes<br />
| country = Bhutan<br />
| language = Hindi, Tibetan<br />
| budget = <br />
}}<br />
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'''''The Cup''''' (ཕོར་པ། or ''Phörpa'') is a 1999 [[Tibetan-language film]] directed by [[Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche|Khyentse Norbu]]. The plot involves two young football-crazed [[Tibet]]an refugee [[samanera|novice monks]] in a remote [[Himalaya]]n [[monastery]] in India who desperately try to obtain a [[television]] for the monastery to watch the [[Football World Cup 1998|1998 World Cup]] final.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
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The movie was shot in the Tibetan refugee village Bir in India (Himachal Pradesh) (almost entirely between Chokling Gompa and Elu Road).<ref name=TM>{{cite news | author =Susan Jakes | title =The God of Small Films | publisher =Time Magazine | date =January 27, 2003 | url =http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,411452,00.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070509052137/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,411452,00.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =May 9, 2007 | accessdate=2009-06-13}}</ref><br />
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Producer Jeremy Thomas had developed a relationship with Norbu when he was an advisor on Bertolucci's ''[[Little Buddha]]''.<ref name=berlinale/> Thomas later remembered his experience making the film:<br />
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{{quote|The director Khyentse Norbu is a Tibetan Lama who went to NYC film school, who wanted to make a movie, and I had become friendly with him. There was this charming story, which was a teaching for him but a story for everyone else, about little monks and the World Cup. It was shown in [[Director’s Fortnight]] at Cannes, and we brought a lot of the Tibetans to the screening and it was well received and sold all over the world. It was a very happy story for everybody involved.<ref name=berlinale>{{cite web |title="At the Cutting Edge" – Producer Jeremy Thomas, interviewed by producer Sandy Lieberson |first=Jeremy |last=Thomas |author2=Lieberson, Sanford |date=2006-04-11 |url=http://www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/story/89/1789.html |publisher=[[Berlinale Talent Campus]] |accessdate=2010-04-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524091710/http://www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/story/89/1789.html |archivedate=2010-05-24 }}</ref>}}<br />
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== Release ==<br />
''The Cup'' was released to DVD on November 13, 2007 in North America by Festival Media (IBFF). The DVD was mastered from a new direct-to-digital transfer from the original film, and includes a bonus documentary entitled ''Inside The Cup'', featuring the director discussing the film, cinema in general and Buddhist philosophy, along with outtakes from the film. There is also a director's commentary audio track.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]<br />
* [[List of Bhutanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|id=0201840|title=The Cup}}<br />
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{{Bhutanese submission for Academy Awards}}<br />
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