Start Sales Date
29 Jul 2022, 9am

Other Channels:
29 Jul 2022, 10am

Language
Performed in Dzongkha, with English subtitles

Duration
Approximately 1 hours 49 mins, no intermission

Rating/Age Limit

• Rating: PG
• Admission is subject to tickets (digital or physical) produced at the entrance.
• Infants in arms or children below the age of 6 shall not be admitted.
• Patrons aged 6 years and above must purchase tickets for admission.

Photography/Video Recording Rules

• No flash photography, unauthorised professional photography, video and audio recording is allowed for this event.
• Please note that photographs and videos of patrons may be taken at this event for use in our archival and publicity material.

Food & Drinks

• No outside food and drinks are allowed in the cinema halls. Only food & drinks purchased from Shaw Concessions are allowed in the hall.
• All patrons are required to mask up when not consuming food & drinks.

Help Us Keep Everyone Safe

• Keep your mask on and practice good personal hygiene.
• Use the hand sanitiser provided around the centre and in the performance venues.
• Shaw Theatres Lido reserves the right not to admit patrons who do not comply with prevailing safe management measures.
• Stay at home if you're unwell.

Pawo Choyning Dorji (Director & Writer) 
Pawo Choyning Doriji is a writer, photographer and filmmaker from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Pawo's introduction to film came in 2012 when he worked as Khyentse Norbu's assistant for the latter's feature; Vara: A Blessing. In 2016 he produced the critically acclaimed Bhutanese feature Hema Hema: Sing me a song While I Wait. 
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is his Directorial debut.

Director’s Note on Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Pursuit of Happiness: 
Being the nation of ‘Gross National Happiness’, Bhutan is supposedly the world’s happiest country. But what does it really entail to be happy? For that matter are the Bhutanese really that happy? Ironically many Bhutanese leave Bhutan, the land of happiness, to seek their own version of ‘happiness’ in the modern glittering cities of the west. 

With Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, I wanted to tell a story where Ugyen, the young protagonist of the story also wishes to go in search of his happiness. However he is sent on another journey… he reluctantly goes into a world that is unlike the modern world in every aspect. Along this journey he realizes what we so desperately seek in the outer material world, actually always exists within us, and that happiness is not really a destination but the journey.