I, THE SONG

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By Dechen RODER

DIVERSION - as SALES All rights, World except Bhutan, France, Norway, Italy

Drama - Completed 2024

Festivals
& Awards

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2024

Critic's Pick Competition, Best Director

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BHUTAN, FRANCE, NORWAY, ITALY
- Duration
- 113 mn
- Director(s)
- Dechen RODER
- Cast
- Tandin BIDHA
- Producer(s)
- Dechen RODER (Dakinny Productions), Johann CHAPELAN (Girelle Productions), Fernanda RENNO (Fidalgo), Stefano CENTINI (Volos Films)
- Synopsis
- Nima, a teacher in the capital of Bhutan, is accused of being in a non-consensual pornographic video. To prove her innocence, she travels to the south of Bhutan in search of her lookalike in the video.
  
  Once there, she is told her doppelgänger, Meto, has left Bhutan. Unconvinced, Nima digs deeper through close encounters with Meto’s friends and lovers.
  
  A visit to Meto’s village confuses Nima further, as Meto's brother is convinced Meto is still in Bhutan, while her grandmother waits for Meto’s return from the city, after recovering a sacred song which was "stolen" by ‘city people’.
  
  As Nima begins to unravel the fragments of Meto’s life, she becomes entangled in a web of uncertainty. But, as her anger towards Meto transforms into concern, she realizes she is the only one who can solve Meto’s disappearance and ‘recover’ the stolen song.
  
  I, THE SONG is a film about exploitation, music, identity, love, and a culture balanced precariously on the threshold of a reckless digital age.