Written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji, and focusing on Bhutan’s preparations for the democratic elections first held in 2008, it shares the same wry spirit and gentle tension between ...

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom' director Pawo Choyning Dorji is back, using the first elections in one of the world’s youngest democracies to comment on what is lost as his country modernizes.

Two years after his “Lunana — A Yak in the Classroom” gave Bhutan its first Oscar nomination, Pawo Choyning Dorji is back with another tale from that mountainous Asian country.

The film is the latest from Pawo Choyning Dorji, director of the Oscar-nominated 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.' By Stephen Farber Anyone who wants to travel the world — vicariously ...

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 ...

No wonder the Bhutanese film-maker Pawo Choyning Dorji is always smiling. As long ago as 1729, the legal code of Bhutan held that the “purpose of the government is to provide happiness to its ...

Join us for a screening and discussion of The Monk and the Gun by Oscar-nominated Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji. Uplifting, humorous and thoughtful, the dramedy plays out during Bhutan's ...

That was undoubtedly what Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji had in mind when he winked this second feature into existence, teasing us with signposts of violence and wisdom before winning us ...

Bhutanese director-writer Pawo Choyning Dorji, whose film 'The Monk and The Gun' is the official submission for the Oscars from Bhutan, has said that the film is a celebration of innocence.

PAWO CHOYNING DORJI: I have always been so intrigued about how Bhutan became a modern nation. I was a teenager growing up and lived abroad and would come back to Bhutan and I could see how the ...

Pawo Choyning Dorji, whose film ‘The Monk and The Gun’ is the official submission for the Oscars from Bhutan, has said that the film is a celebration of innocence. Bhutanese director-writer ...