{"id":4113,"date":"2023-07-14T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4113"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:03:05","slug":"lunana-a-yak-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/lunana-a-yak-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji, Bhutan\/China 2019, 109 mins, PG<\/p>\n

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"Lunana\u2019s appeal is hard to miss \u2026 unashamedly sentimental and so open-hearted, you want to breathe it in, to fill your lungs with it" The Guardian
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Ugyen has one year of teaching left to complete his five years of government service but what he really wants is to travel to Australia and become a singer. Instead he is sent to the most remote school in the world in Lunana, Bhutan. After an eight day trek, he finds himself in a schoolroom with no electricity or teaching supplies in a village of only fifty people \u2014 and their yaks!
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"The gorgeous views of the Himalayan mountains only add to the appeal of a film that \u2026 is an irresistible delight from start to finish" Radio Times<\/i>

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  1. NPR Media<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Sight and Sound<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Interview with Director, The Indian Express<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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