Director: Dechen Roder
Scriptwriter: Dechen Roder
Cinematographer: Jigme Tenzing
Editing: Dechen Roder
Sound: Warren Santiago
Music: Tashi Dorji
Cast: Jamyang Jamtsho, Wangchuk Sonam, Tashi Choden
Production:
Dakinny Productions
Distribution:
Jupiter Communications
41 rue Claude Terrasse
75 016 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1 53 84 40 90
www.jupiter-films.com
Year: 2016
DCP, Colour, 118 min, OV Dzongkha with French Subtitles
Busan Film Festival 2016
Detective Kinley investigates the disappearance of a Buddhist nun. He forms a stormy alliance with Choden, his only suspect who is an attractive woman considered by the villagers as a “devil”. In the course of the stories Choden tells him about Dakinis from the past (enlightened Buddhist women with power and wisdom), Kinly thinks he begins to see the solution of the investigation. He however has to succumb to Choden’s charms and to her supernatural beliefs.
This “Buddhist black film” is the debut feature of director and script writer Dechen Roder, one of the few women working in this field in Bhutan.
