Director Pawo Choyning Dorji and actor Tandin Wangchuk stopped by TIFF's Studio 9 to discuss their home country of Bhutan and how it acts as the backdrop of their feature film THE MONK AND THE GUN.

Set in 2006, when the Kingdom of Bhutan began its transition to democracy, this playful ensemble drama from writer-director Pawo Choyning Dorji is a poignant parable about the impossibility of embracing modernity without reckoning with the past.

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