The Red Phallus

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The Red Phallus (2019)

Directed by Tashi Gyeltshen

Drama · 1h 25m

Sangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to have mysterious power, and playing a festival clown with a red mask at a local festival. She reluctantly delivers the phalluses to neighbors but she is followed by dozens of men with red masks and costumes when walking through the hill. Conflict and tension grows between the father, who has concerns about his successor, and Sangai, who has a clandestine relationship with a married man.

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Cast

T
Tshering Euden Sangay
S
Singye Passa
D
Dorji Gyeltshen Ap Atsara
C
Choten Wangchuk School principal
P
Phub Wangmo Old woman
S
Sangay Lhamo Passa's wife
G
Gyem Tshering Passa's son
R
Rada Wangmo Passa's daughter
T
Tshomo Aum Zam

Crew

Director
Tashi Gyeltshen
Writer
Tashi Gyeltshen
Director of Photography
Jigme Tenzing
Original Music Composer
Frances-Marie Uitti, Jigme Drukpa
Editor
Saman Alvitigala
Producer
Kristina Konrad, Tashi Gyeltshen, Ram Krishna Pokharel

Details

Release date
2019-03-20
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama
Original language
DZ
Spoken languages
Dzongkha
Countries
Germany, Bhutan, Nepal
Production
Studio 108