A film depicting the life of Tibetan villagers opens tonight (Friday) at the LagoonTheater in Minneapolis. "Himalaya", by French director Eric Valli (Volley), was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film in 1999. The movie depicts a power struggle among Tibetan villagers in an isolated region of Nepal called 'the dolpo". Most of the actors in the film are local villagers playing fictionalized versions of themselves. One exception is Lhakpa Tsamchoe (LOK-pah SOM-shoo), the Tibetan film actress who was last seen in "Seven Years in Tibet". She told Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes the eight months of filming high in the Himalayan mountains was draining both emotionally and physically.