Deep in the dense forest of Bhutan, apart from secular society, a unique ceremony takes place every Year of the Monkey, which comes in every twelfth year in Buddhist monk and director Khyentse Norbu’s unconventional mystery drama. The people secretly chosen by the old monk wear masks throughout the entire fifteen-day ceremony to give complete anonymity. It is punished to unmask oneself or to try to figure out other’s identities, but everything else is free. This covert community is erotic but can be life threateningly dangerous. As the old monk says, "Being anonymous is intoxicating." Humans may take drastic action without constraint. A young man with lots of curiosity as well as lots of fears joins the ceremony for the first time and becomes obsessed with a woman. Then his delusion leads him to do something that can never be reversed. Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait is a contemplation of human behavior and its karma in a flamboyant situation. Most characters never show their faces, but the flashed appearance of Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Zhou Xun, as well as the long final credit roll with names of crowd funders, gives enjoyment considering the solidarity among Asian filmmakers. (PARK Sungho)