I, the Song (2024)

Original title

མོ་གི་གསང་བའི་ཞབས་ཁྲ

Directed by

Dechen Roder

Genre

drama film

Country

Bhutan, France, Italy, Norway

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

IIA

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A school teacher travels to southern Bhutan looking for someone who looks like her. She hopes to save her job and reputation.

contemplativethoughtfulmeasuredintrospectivepersonalsubduedseriousatmosphericgrounded

What happens

I, the Song (Dzongkha: མོ་གི་གསང་བའི་ཞབས་ཁྲ, romanized: mo gi gsang b'i zhabs khra) is a 2024 drama film written, co-produced and directed by Dechen Roder. It follows a school teacher, who travels to the south of Bhutan in search of a look-alike to save her job and reputation. The film had its world premiere at the Critics' Picks section of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on 19 November 2024, where it won the Best Director award for Dechen Roder. In February 2025, the film won eight awards at the Bhutan National Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Original Score, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editor, among others. It was also selected as the Bhutanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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