The Red Phallus

Overview

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.

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Cast

Tshering Euden

Sangay

Singye

Passa

Dorji Gyeltshen

Ap Atsara

Choten Wangchuk

School principal

Phub Wangmo

Old woman

Sangay Lhamo

Passa's wife

Gyem Tshering

Passa's son

Rada Wangmo

Passa's daughter

Tshomo

Aum Zam