Bhutan in pictures and debate: learning democracy
As part of the "South Asia and the Himalayas in pictures and debate" series.
Session 5 - Bhutan in pictures and debate: learning democracy
The Monk and the Gun by Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2024 l 1h47 min l VOSTF
2006. Bhutan opens up to modernization and discovers the Internet, television... and democracy. To teach its people how to vote, the government organizes "white elections". But in the land of Gross National Happiness, where religion and the King are more important than politics, the inhabitants seem unmotivated. However, in a remote mountain province, a monk decides to organize a mysterious ceremony on voting day and instructs one of his disciples to find a rifle...
Debate with Jeanne Mascolo, documentary filmmaker, traveler and author, specialist in the Himalayas and Nicolas Sihlé (CESAH), anthropologist specializing in Tibetan Buddhism.
