Illustrated portrait of Genden PhuntsokFLM.RED

GENDEN
PHUNTSOK

เกนเดน พุนต์ซก

From Tibetan-language cinema to Tenzing

Genden Phuntsok is an actor of Tibetan descent whose films include Jinpa and Tenzing.

Stories across the Tibetan plateau

Genden Phuntsok is an actor of Tibetan descent whose work includes Tibetan-language cinema and international productions.

He appears in Pema Tseden’s Jinpa, which screened in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. The festival lists him alongside the actor Jinpa and Sonam Wangmo.

His other credits include Zhang Yang’s Soul on a String. In Jennifer Peedom’s Tenzing, Phuntsok plays mountaineer Tenzing Norgay alongside Tom Hiddleston as Edmund Hillary.

The films listed below are those available on FLM.RED and are not his complete filmography.

Selected screen work

2016

Soul on a String

Actor

2018

Jinpa

Actor

2026

Tenzing

Tenzing Norgay

Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.

Films in FLM.RED

Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.

Sources & image notes

Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.