As “The Monk and the Gun” opens and we listen to radio reports about upcoming mock elections in Bhutan, an elderly lama, played by real-life lama Kelsang Choejay, instructs his young monk attendant ...
“Why are you teaching us to be so rude?” the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in “The Monk and the Gun.” It’s a question both poignant and biting, because the “teaching” this ...
The film is the latest from Pawo Choyning Dorji, director of the Oscar-nominated 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.' By Stephen Farber Anyone who wants to travel the world — vicariously, of course — ...
For the unsuspecting, a title like “The Monk and the Gun” lands like a promise: Do you prepare for a mythic showdown or a mystic parable? That was undoubtedly what Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning ...
'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom' director Pawo Choyning Dorji is back, using the first elections in one of the world’s youngest democracies to comment on what is lost as his country modernizes. What ...
Bhuthan भुठान starts with Bishnu Bahadur KC played by Hari Bansha Acharya on a call, requesting to speak to the visa officer. By this point, he had applied for a visa to Bhutan 10 times, but was ...
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“Why are you teaching us to be so rude?” the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in “The Monk and the Gun.” It’s a question both poignant and biting, because the “teaching” this ...
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