Sing Me a Song (France/Germany/Switzerland, 2019)
Sing Me a Song recalls the groundbreaking Up series which followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 at seven year intervals. That pioneering...
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan, 2019) [NYAFF 2020]
A perception exist that Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness philosophy has made the country one of “the happiest places in the world,” but the reality is...
Honeygiver Among the Dogs (Bhutan, 2016)
Dechen Roder’s debut feature Honeygiver Among the Dogs is quite a unique film whose particular charm depends on its blend of seemingly incompatible approaches. Present...
The Red Phallus (Bhutan, 2018)
At times frustratingly caught between art-house mood piece and ethnographic record, Tashi Gyeltshen’s first feature The Red Phallus nonetheless affords a glimpse of how life...
The Open Door (Bhutan, 2018) [Aperture 2019]
I suspect that many readers will be unfamiliar with the emerging Bhutanese cinema, yet they might know the director of the short film The Open...