2023
year
107
Minutes
SCHEDULE
02.03.2024
/ 07:40 PM/
Audi 5 PVR INOX ORION MALL
06.03.2024
/ 04:30 PM/
Audi 7 PVR INOX ORION MALL
Synopsis
Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has finally arrived. Bhutan becomes the last country in the world to connect to the internet and television, and now the biggest change of all: democracy. To teach the people how to vote, the authorities organize a mock election, but the locals seem unconvinced. Traveling to rural Bhutan where religion is more popular than politics, the election supervisor discovers that a monk is planning a mysterious ceremony for election day.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Jean-Christophe Simon, Hsu Feng, Stephanie Lai, Pawo Choyning Dorji
Screenplay: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Director of Photography: Jigme Tenzing
Editor: Hsiao-Yun Ku
Music: Frederic Alvarez
Sound: Duu-Chih Tu, Chiang Yi-Chen
Cast: Tandin Wangchuk, Deki Lhamo, Pema Zangmo Sherpa, Tandin Sonam, Harry Einhorn
Awards - Winner: Vancouver IFF (Audience Award), Mumbai FF (IMDb Audience Choice Award), Rome FF (Special Jury Award - Best Film)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: 96th Academy Awards (Bhutan's official entry for Best International Feature at the Oscars 2024), Palm Springs IFF (FIPRESCI Prize), Telluride FF, Rome FF (Progressive Cinema - Best Film), Toronto IFF, Busan IFF
Director's Biography
PAWO CHOYNING DORJI
Pawo Choyning Dorji is a Bhutanese filmmaker and photographer born in Darjeeling, India. His feature directorial debut, LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM (2019), was nominated for an Academy Award. THE MONK AND THE GUN (2023) is his latest film.
- Asian Cinema Competition
- Indian Cinema Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Country Focus - Germany
- Critics Week
- Bio-Pics
- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
- 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
- AMAL
- BANEL & ADAMA
- CITY OF WIND
- DELEGATION
- DESERTS
- DORMITORY
- ENDLESS BORDERS
- EXODUS
- FALLEN LEAVES
- FOUR DAUGHTERS
- FREMONT
- GOODBYE JULIA
- HEROIC
- HESITATION WOUND
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
- JE’VIDA
- KIDNAPPED
- ME CAPTAIN
- OMEN
- SIX FEET OVER
- SLOW
- THE BURITI FLOWER
- THE DELINQUENTS
- THE MONK AND THE GUN
- THE OLD OAK
- THE RYE HORN
- THE TEACHER
- TOLL
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS
- PARADISE IS BURNING
- DAAAAAALI!
- BLAGA’S LESSONS
- SWEET DREAMS
- MATRIA
- LET ME GO
- CLOSE YOUR EYES
- THE LAND WHERE WINDS STOOD STILL
- BONJOUR SWITZERLAND
- IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
- ALL EARS
- A WHOLE LIFE
- WITHOUT AIR
- BROTHERS
- THE TASTE OF THINGS
- RADICAL
- ALL THE SILENCE
- YANNICK
- TEMPORARIES
- PARADISE
- ABOUT DRY GRASSES
- HOFFMAN'S FAIRY TALES
- DAMAGE
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
- EMPTY NETS
- THE MONKEY HOUSE
- SHIVAMMA