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The Red Phallus

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Family · Children · Psychology  

  • CountryBhutan,Germany,Nepal
  • Production Year2018
  • Running Time85min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
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. Set in the great mountains of inland Bhutan, the film is full of stunning images and mysterious symbols and metaphors. And trees with hanging phalluses and the men in red masks following Sangai might deliver quite a violent and strange impression on the audience. The film creates a unique space/world by combining reality and fantasy, and it contrasts the image of phallus and a little girl Sangai with calm but when she reveals her violent nature hidden in her silence, the moment is quite toppled over. It also questions the human nature and primitive instinct, illusions created by red masks and costumes, and the boundary between the illusion and the reality, the duplicity of human being. (Kim Young-Woo)
Director
Director
Tashi GYELTSHEN
Gyeltshen wanted to become a poet but instead became a journalist. He is a self-taught filmmaker, winning Best Screenplay at Bhutan’s National Film Awards in 2009. He made his first short Girl with a Red Sky in 2008. His third short The Red Door (2009) premiered at Rotterdam IFF. The Red Phallus is his feature debut.
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Credit
  • Director Tashi GYELTSHEN 타쉬 겔트쉔
  • Producer Tashi Gyeltshen, Kristina Konrad, Ram Krishna Pokharel
  • Cast Tshering Euden, Singye Singye, Dorji Gyeltshen
  • Screenplay Tashi Gyeltshen
  • Cinematography Jigme T. Tenzing
  • Production Design Karma Tenzin
  • Editor Saman Alvitigala
  • Music Frances-Marie Uitti, Jigme Drukpa
  • Production Company Studio 108
    Bhutan Thimphu, Bhutan
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