The Red Phallus (2019)

  • NR
  • 02/10/2019 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 25m

Overview

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.

Tashi Gyeltshen

Director, Writer

Cast

Tshering Euden's headshot

Tshering Euden

Sangay
Singye's headshot

Singye

Passa
Dorji Gyeltshen's headshot

Dorji Gyeltshen

Ap Atsara
Choten Wangchuk's headshot

Choten Wangchuk

School principal
Phub Wangmo's headshot

Phub Wangmo

Old woman
Sangay Lhamo's headshot

Sangay Lhamo

Passa's wife
Gyem Tshering's headshot

Gyem Tshering

Passa's son
Rada Wangmo's headshot

Rada Wangmo

Passa's daughter

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