THE RED PHALLUS

By Tashi GYELTSHEN

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Drama - Completed 2018

Red Phalluses and sacred mask. A journey full of sensibility and anger into Bhutan's ancestral belief and society by first time director Tashi Gyeltshen.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2018
New currents FIPRESCI Award
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019
Generation
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama, First film
    • Countries
    • BHUTAN, NEPAL, GERMANY
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tashi GYELTSHEN
    • Synopsis
    • In a remote valley of Bhutan, the teenager SANGAY lives with her father, a traditional Buddhist painter and craftsman of wooden phalluses. She isn't happy with her life, opposing her dad and everybody at school. She feels trapped in the middle of the emptiness of the valley and surrounded by people who live by the rules of ancient belief and symbols. Up to the day her father discovers that she is seeing a married man, from the lowest cast of the village: the butcher.