Dzongkha wird u.a. in Indien und Bhutan gesprochen und 4 Filme (zwischen 1894 und 2019) mit dieser Sprache wurden bislang erfasst. Die meisten dieser Filme wurden in Bhutan (3) gedreht. Besonders beliebte Genres für Dzongkha Filme sind Drama (3), Abenteuer (1) und Animation / Zeichentrick (1). Zu den bekanntesten & erfolgreichsten Filmen zählen Autour d’une cabine (1894), Lunana – Das Glück liegt im Himalaya (2019), Travellers and Magicians (2003) und The Red Phallus (2019).
A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu, however, and is forced to hitchhike and walk along the Lateral Road to the west, accompanied by an apple seller, a Buddhist monk with his ornate, dragon-headed dramyin, a drunk, a widowed rice paper maker, and his beautiful daughter, Sonam.
The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water from the diving board and then appear on the beach. The woman begins to play with a small dog and is then joined by a gentleman. The two play around on the beach before getting changed into bathing costumes and going into the water. They bob up and down in the water before swimming out of the scene. Once the couple have gone a man sails out in a boat.
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.
Ein junger Lehrer wird in ein entlegenes Dorf im Himalaja zwangsversetzt. Dort lernt er viel von seinen Schüler*innen und den anderen Menschen im Dorf.