I, The Song
Indonesian Premiere
113 minutes | 2024 | Bhutan, France, Norway, Italy | Drama | 🔊 Dzongkha
Synopsis
Sinopsis
To save her job, 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.
Schedule
Jadwal
Tue, 2 Dec 2025 | 15:00 | EMPIRE XXI | Studio 5
Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Dechen Roder
Dechen Roder, one of Bhutan’s few female filmmakers, founded Dakinny Productions in 2009. Her short Lo Sum Choe Sum (2015) competed at Berlinale Shorts and other festivals. Her debut feature Honeygiver Among the Dogs (Busan 2017, Berlinale 2017) won three awards at Fribourg and became the first Bhutanese film nominated for an Asia Pacific Screen Award. She later founded the Beskop Tshechu film festival. I, The Song is her second feature.
Credit
Kredit
| Production Company | Girelle Production / Dakinny Productions |
| Producer | Dechen Roder, Johann Chapelan, Fernanda Renno, Stefano Centini |
| Director | Dechen Roder |
| Scriptwriter | Dechen Roder |
| Cinematographer | Rangoli Agarwal |
| Production Designer | Pem Lham |
| Editor | Noemie Azul Loeve, Dechen Roder |
| Main Cast | Tandin Bidha, Jimmy Wangyal Tshering, Tshering Dorji, Sonam Lhamo, Dorji Wangdi |
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| Contact | [email protected] |
