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The Red Phallus

The Red Phallus

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 20, 2019

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama

User Score

75%

Original Title

The Red Phallus

Production Companies

Studio 108

Director

Tashi Gyeltshen

Description

Sangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to have mysterious power, and playing a festival clown with a red mask at a local festival. She reluctantly delivers the phalluses to neighbors but she is followed by dozens of men with red masks and costumes when walking through the hill. Conflict and tension grows between the father, who has concerns about his successor, and Sangai, who has a clandestine relationship with a married man.