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The Monk and the Gun
2023
Synopsis
The Kingdom of Bhutan is to become a democracy and holds a mock election as a training exercise. In the town of Ura, an old lama orders a monk to get a gun to face the imminent change in the kingdom. Meanwhile, an American collector is in search of a valuable gun that falls in the lama’s hands.
Editorial
Following his Oscar®-nominated debut Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, Pawo Choyning Dorji returns to rural Bhutan for his sophomore feature, an intricate mosaic of wittily converging stories. At once a political satire and a picturesque fable, this is an offbeat look at a nascent nation in flux.
