LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM

2022
1 HR, 50 min
APR 22 → MAY 5

Details

Released January 21, 2022

Bhutan, China

1 hour, 50 minutes

Samuel Goldwyn Films

Starring

Sherab Dorji
Ugyen Norbu Lhendup
Kelden Lhamo Gurung
Pem Zam
Sangay Lham
Chimi Dem

Director

Pawo Choyning Dorji

Film Information

Academy Award Nominee: Best International Film

A young teacher in modern Bhutan, Ugyen, shirks his duties while planning to go to Australia to become a singer. As a reprimand, his superiors send him to the most remote school in the world, a glacial Himalayan village called Lunana, to complete his service. He finds himself exiled from his Westernized comforts after an arduous 8 day trek just to get there. There he finds no electricity, no textbooks, not even a blackboard. Though poor, the villagers extend a warm welcome to their new teacher, but he faces the daunting task of teaching the village children without any supplies. He wants to quit and go home, but he begins to learn of the hardship in the lives of the beautiful children he teaches, and begins to be transformed through the amazing spiritual strength of the villagers.

Full Cast

Sherab Dorji

Ugyen Norbu Lhendup

Kelden Lhamo Gurung

Pem Zam

Sangay Lham

Chimi Dem

Additional Credits

Pawo Choyning Dorji Director

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Reviews

“[ LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM ] is a fable, to be sure, and one that unfolds at a leisurely pace, not a tough-minded psychological drama. But it’s sharp-witted as well as soulful, reasonably suspenseful and brings news from a little-known area of the world.”

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

“Opening the doors to a land and people most Westerners know little about, the director crafts a crowd-pleaser in stunning, mostly unseen locations whose charms weather even its most idealistically patriotic and overly saccharine notes.”

Carlos Aguilar

Los Angeles Times