"Travelrers And Magicians" is a 2003 Bhutanese Dzongkha language film written and directed by Khyentse Norbu a reincarnate lama of Tebitan buddhism, who is also known as Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche. This movie is the first feature film shot entirely in the kingdom of Bhutan.This movie was so cool I got whole new genre name out of it,"divergent cultural templates." It wasn`t just that it was in Dzongkha, or that the scenery of Bhutan was so different (it just looked mountainous). It was more like the weird humor of "Nacho Libre." The everyday events colored by the filter of a basically different set of expectations.
As a westernized civil servant Dondup (Tshewang Dendup) makes his way from his isolated village to the capital city of Thimphu on his way to America, he is joined on his journey by a Buddhist monk (Sonam Kinga). Playing his ornate dramyin by their campfire the monk shares a folk tale of a boy who steps across a dream barrier to the forest shack of a shaman.
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