Directed by Dechen Roder
2024
Drama
112 min
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Bhutan France Italy Norway Taiwan
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Dzongkha
To save her job and reputation, a school teacher travels to the south of Bhutan in search of her doppelganger, but as she becomes entangled in her lookalike’s life, she realizes she might be the only one to solve her doppelganger’s disappearance as well as recover a “stolen” sacred song.
Dechen Roder is one of the few female filmmakers from the kingdom of Bhutan. She started off making small documentaries and videos, through her production company – Dakinny Productions, incepted in 2009. In 2015 she wrote and directed LO SUM CHOE SUM (3 Year 3 Month Retreat), which competed in the Berlinale Shorts and other festivals around world. The same year she began production of her debut feature film - HONEY GIVER AMONG THE DOGS (recipient of the ACF 2016 post production award and the HANIFF 2014 project market award) which premieredin Busan International Film Festival 2017, had its European premiere in Berlinale 2017 and won three awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival 2017. It was also the first film from Bhutan to be nominated for an Asia Pacific Screen Award 20 17 in the C ultural Diversity category. I, THE SONG is her second feature film. She is also the organizer andfounder of the film festival- Beskop Tshechu.
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