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THE RED PHALLUS

Directed by Tashi Gyeltshen
Bhutan, Germany, 2018
Drama
  • 8282 minutes

Synopsis

16-year-old Sangay lives with her father, a traditional craftsman of wooden phalluses, in a remote valley of Bhutan. She is unhappy, feeling trapped and surrounded by people who live by their stringent beliefs, when her father discovers that she is seeing a married man from a lower social class.

Synopsis

16-year-old Sangay lives with her father, a traditional craftsman of wooden phalluses, in a remote valley of Bhutan. She is unhappy, feeling trapped and surrounded by people who live by their stringent beliefs, when her father discovers that she is seeing a married man from a lower social class.