6th edition of Beskop Tshechu festival will open with “Pig at the Crossing”, a film by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Bhutan 2025, 95 mins)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udccdCity Cinema Hall, 23 May, 7:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fQ&A session with
Druksel Dorji (producer)
Kuenzang Norbu (main lead)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2728FREE ENTRY\u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis:<\/strong> Slowly he begins to realize that he is in fact dead. With the help of a mysterious guide, Dolom navigates this in-between realm and faces his storied past and the consequences of his actions. As time collapses around him, he must choose to right his wrongs and let go of his attachment to his former self or be trapped to wander in a dream-like in-between state for timelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the Director:<\/strong> 6th edition of Beskop Tshechu festival will open with “Pig at the Crossing”, a film by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Bhutan 2025, 95 mins)! \ud83d\udccdCity Cinema Hall, 23 May, 7:30pm \ud83c\udf99\ufe0fQ&A session withDruksel Dorji (producer)Kuenzang Norbu (main lead) \u2728FREE ENTRY\u2728 Synopsis:After a young man abruptly dies in an accident, he grapples with an unfamiliar world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
After a young man abruptly dies in an accident, he grapples with an unfamiliar world of the space between death and rebirth. Dolom, 29, a passionate YouTube creator and newly appointed school teacher in Bhutan has a one-night stand with a married woman, DEKI, 32. When she discovers that she\u2019s pregnant, Dolom concocts a plan to cover up the affair and save his reputation. On his way to rendezvous with Deki, Dolom gets into a motorcycle accident and wakes up in a bizarre, and chaotic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Khyentse Norbu, born 1961) is a Buddhist Lama, writer and filmmaker from Bhutan. Known for his auteurship and guerrilla approach to filmmaking, Khyentse Norbu first emerged on the scene with his breakout film The Cup in 1999, about two football fanatic Tibetan monks in a a remote Buddhist monastery who, against all odds, secures a TV to watch the 1998 World Cup final live. Since then, he has made four other films with international casts and crew, including Travellers and Magicians (2013) and Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2016). Pig at the Crossing is Khyentse Norbu\u2019s sixth and was shot entirely in Bhutan with a ragtag team of the youth of Bhutan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"