Matinee

Series/Themes: Middle Eastern & South Asian Sidebar

Genre: Drama, International

Accessibility: Subtitles

Film Year: 2019

Locations: Bhutan

Film Length: 110 min.

Languages: Dzongkha

Subtitles: English Subtitles

Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji

Featuring: Sherab Dorji, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup.

Shot on solar powered batteries on location at the world’s most remote school, director Pawo Choyning Dorji’s heartwarming film is proof that sometimes we find what we seek in the place we least expect it. Ugyen has one more year of service to earn his teaching degree and pursue his dreams of musical stardom in Australia. When he is sent to this Himalayan outpost, the students (played by the school’s real students) teach him that finding true fulfillment can be a two-way street. Introduction by Samhita Sunya (UVA)

This is a foreign-language film presented with English subtitles.

This film is part of the Middle Eastern and South Asian Sidebar supported by the UVA Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the UVA Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures.