Screening Date: 12 June 2025
Screening Time: 7pm
Release Date: 2023
Directors: Pawo Choying
Country: Bhutan
Running Time: 107mins
Rating: PG
Language: Dzongkha, English
This immensely enjoyable crowd pleaser is set in rural Bhutan around 2006, as the King abdicates to make way for the country’s new democracy. From the director of A Yak in the Classroom, this droll and shrewdly satirical dramedy is a fascinating portrait of the wonder and disruption caused when two very unlike systems of thought collide.
Set in the weeks before Bhutan’s first democratic election in 2006, a trial vote with fictional parties is planned to introduce voters to the concept of democracy. When a dedicated young monk is asked by his elderly lama to bring him two guns before voting begins, it seems trouble is in store. A cavalcade of characters and misadventures ensue, in a story that is as suspenseful as it is utterly charming.
“..humorous and hugely satisfying..” Variety
