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Movies: Best Movies in Dzongkha(རྫོང་ཁ་)

Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; [t͡sòŋkʰɑ́]) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script. The word dzongkha means "the language of the fortress", from dzong "fortress" and kha "language". As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 total speakers. Dzongkha is a South Tibetic language. It is closely related to and partially intelligible with Sikkimese, and to some other Bhutanese languages such as Chocha Ngacha, Brokpa, Brokkat and Lakha. It has a more distant relationship to Standard Tibetan. Spoken Dzongkha and Tibetan are around 50 to 80 percent mutually intelligible. ()

Dzongkha is spoken in India and Bhutan and 4 movies (between 1894 and 2019) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Bhutan (3). Popular genres for Dzongkha movies are Drama (3), Adventure (1) and Animation (1). Autour d’une cabine (1894), Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019), Travellers and Magicians (2003) and The Red Phallus (2019) are among the best known & most successful Dzongkha movies.


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Travellers and Magicians(2003)

1h 48min | Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

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.

Directed by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche - With Neten Chokling

Autour d’une cabine(1894)

2min | Animation
2.9/5 (with 21 votes)

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.

The Red Phallus(2019)

1h 25min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Tashi Gyeltshen - With Tshering Euden, Singye, Dorji Gyeltshen

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom(2019)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.

Directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji