THE RED PHALLUS

ICEFALL PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2018

We all live in one story but different realities. Or perhaps, we all live in one reality but different stories. And in between, there is just a mask.

Festivals
& Awards

busan 2018
FIPRESCI AWARD
Berlin 2019
GENERATION 14 PLUS
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • BHUTAN, GERMANY, NEPAL
    • Languages
    • Other
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Synopsis
    • We all live in one story.
      But.
      Different realities.

      Or. Perhaps.

      We all live in one reality. But.
      Different stories.

      And. In between.
      There is just a mask.

      In the gloomy and remote valley of Phobjika, Central Bhutan, Sangay (16) lives with her widower father, Ap Atsara, a craftsman who is specialized in making wooden phalluses. He has also been playing the role of an atsara (a clown) in the tsechu (festival) for the last twenty years. Now, he wants to retire and pass on the mask to a younger talent.

      But, a dark secret from the past unfolds. And in the convoluted world of phalluses and masks, Sangay struggles to find congruence between her inner world and the outer relationships. She gets lost in the haunting and beautiful landscape of Phobjikha in search of who she wants to become.

      Instead, she finds a mask. And behind it, her world.