The Red Phallus

7.5

85m

2019

Drama

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.

Starring

Tshering Euden, Singye, Dorji Gyeltshen, Choten Wangchuk, Phub Wangmo, Sangay Lhamo, Gyem Tshering, Rada Wangmo, Tshomo

Directed By

Tashi Gyeltshen