International Buddhist Film Festival Official Selection
LIVE ZOOM Q&A WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR KHYENTSE NORBU
Dolom, a young YouTube creator and newly appointed schoolteacher in Bhutan, gets into a motorcycle accident and wakes up in a bizarre and chaotic world. Slowly, very slowly, he begins to realize that he is in fact dead. With the help of a mysterious and mischievous guide, Dolom navigates this in-between realm and faces his past and the consequences of his actions. As time collapses around him, he must choose to right his wrongs and let go of his attachment to his former self or be trapped to wander in a dream-like liminal state.
In Dzongkha and English with English subtitles
Director: Khyentse Norbu (Bhutan 2024) 122 min. plus Q+A
SUNDAY, DEC 8 • 4:30
$14 General | $10.50 Matinee | $10.50 Seniors & Youth | $8.50 CAFILM members
Director Khyentse Norbu’s previous films include The Cup, Travellers & Magicians, and Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, and he had a role in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha. He’s also known by his Tibetan Buddhist teaching name, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche. Filmed on location in Bhutan, Norbu’s new film carries with it the director’s keen sense of all the resonances of the bardo teachings, a key component of Tibetan Buddhist tradition, detailed in The Tibetan Book of the Dead.