The Monk and the Gun (bc30)

Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has finally arrived. Having been the last country in the world to connect to the internet and television, it now faces the biggest change of all: democracy. To teach the people how to vote, authorities organise a mock election, but the locals remain unconvinced. Travelling to rural Bhutan where religion matters far more than politics, an election supervisor discovers that a monk is planning a mysterious ceremony for election day. As the first Bhutanese film released in Hong Kong, it inspired bc to launch a popular social media vote on its wall colour, widening the film’s reach.