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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

directed and written by Pawo Choyning Dorji

110 minutes

This is a one-off, an Oscar-nominated drama from Bhutan. A compassionate and captivating film about a city boy’s encounter with a remote community’s age-old way of life, it highlights a massive conflict between individualism, status, and ambition – the switched-on developed

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