Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
1 Academy Award Nomination!
2022 Academy Award-nominee for Best International Feature Film!
In this charming and warm-hearted comedy, a 2022 nominee for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award, a disillusioned schoolteacher in modern-day Bhutan is transferred to the most remote school in the world, cut off from modern life deep in the Himalayan glaciers. In a classroom with no electricity or even a blackboard, he finds himself with only a yak and a song that echoes through the mountains. (Dir. by Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2019, Bhutan/China, in Dzongkha/English with English subtitles, 110 mins., Not Rated)