The Red Phallus (2019)
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.
- Date of release
- 2019-03-20
- TMDB
- 7.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Tashi Gyeltshen
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
The Red Phallus is a 2018 Bhutanese Dzongkha-language drama film written and directed by Tashi Gyeltshen.
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