THE NEXT GUARDIAN
COMPLETED
Filmmaker: Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó
Country: Hungary
Runtime: 74′
Year: 2017
Format: HD
In a remote village in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, Gyembo (16) and Tashi (15) aimlessly roam while their father meticulously polishes the ancient relics inside the altar of their family monastery. This family has been taking care of the monastery from one generation to the next for thousands of years. Following tradition, the father wants his son Gyembo to carry on the family heritage but he has other desires just like his sister. The film through bittersweet micro-situations takes us inside a Bhutanese family where the contrasting dreams of two generations are caught in a time clash.
CREDITS
Producer: Julianna Ugrin
Cinematography: Arun Bhattarai
Editing: Károly Szalai H.S.E.
Sound design: Rudolf Várhegyi H.A.S.E.
Original score: Ádám Balázs
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
IDFA
BIDF Budapest International Documentary Film Festival
Bhutan Film Association
Hungarian Film Week
True/False
Ambulante Documentary Film Festival
Cambodia International Film Festival
One World Film Festival
Salem Film Fest
San Francisco International Film Festival
Mediawave
DOK.fest München
Zsigmond Vilmos Film Festival
Docs Against Gravity
SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival
Mostra La Ploma
Buddhist Arts and Film Festival
European Film Festival Palic
CERVINO CINEMOUNTAIN
Open-air cinema in Oradea
Film Festival della Lessinia
“Message to Man” International Film Festival
Saratov Sufferings Documentary Film Festival
Le Grand Bivouac
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
DUHOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The International SPIRIT Film Festival
Asian Film Festival Barcelona
Camerimage
this human world
7th International Anthropological Film Festival
Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival(KIMFF)
BuddhaFest Online
Smithsonian Mother Tongue Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2019 at MoMA
Kumu Documentary
Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna
Milestonale Documentary Film Festival
IV. Ars Sacra Film Festival
64. Országos Függetlenfilm Fesztivál
Film South Asia
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