"Why would a monk take our gun?" Roadside Attr. has unveiled the US trailer for the exceptional new film The Monk and The Gun made in the remote mountainous country of Bhutan by Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji (who was already nominated for an Oscar for his last film Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom).
By Nina Müller
Peyangki with Ugyden and her daughter. Image courtesy of Participant
Sing Me A Song is a new documentary film by French director Thomas Balmès that explores the ways in which rapid technological development has impacted the remote mountain village of Laya in Bhutan. The film, which received rave reviews after it premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), was released to the wider public on 1 January this year and it is available on US cable networks as well as on iTunes, Amazon, Prime Video, VUDU, Google Play, YouTube, Microsoft, and Vimeo.
While the documentary is considered by many to be a sequel to Balmès’ 2013 film