THE MONK AND THE GUN
Week 3 | 107 mins | Age recommendation: 12+
By Pawo Choyning Dorji, with Harry Einhorn, Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Sonam, Pema Zangmo Sherpa.
Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has finally arrived. Bhutan becomes the last country in the world to connect to the internet and television, and now the biggest change of all: democracy. To teach the people how to vote, the authorities organize a mock election, but the locals seem unconvinced. Traveling to rural Bhutan where religion is more popular than politics, the election supervisor discovers that a monk is planning a mysterious ceremony for the election day.