BHUTAN SPECIAL

THE MONK IN THE FOREST

DIRECTOR: KARMA WANGCHUK
RUNNING TIME: 11 MIN, LANGUAGE: NO DIALOGUE
A fearful lone monk lost in a forest, confronts himself as his fear manifests externally. This film is inspired by an actual incident in 2003 and is inspired by an “impressionist painting” style.

SONGS FROM HOME

DIRECTOR: ARUN BHATTARAI | DOROTTYA ZURBO
RUNNING TIME: 25 MIN, LANGUAGE: NEPALI & DUTCH
Jan and Laxmi are an unlikely couple who live in an isolated house. Songs and silence, religion and science, East and West, past and present merge in the house somewhere in Belgian Jungle.

HOME ALONE

DIRECTOR: LODAY CHOPHEL
RUNNING TIME: 9 MIN, LANGUAGE: DZONGKHA


A 95 year old man living alone in his birthplace reflects on a diminishing community and his life as a whole. Home alone also highlights the bitter truth and affects of rural-urban migration and modernization