As “The Monk and the Gun” opens and we listen to radio reports about upcoming mock elections in Bhutan, an elderly lama, played by real-life lama Kelsang Choejay, instructs his young monk attendant ...

“Why are you teaching us to be so rude?” the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in “The Monk and the Gun.” It’s a question both poignant and biting, because the “teaching” this ...

The film is the latest from Pawo Choyning Dorji, director of the Oscar-nominated 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.' By Stephen Farber Anyone who wants to travel the world — vicariously, of course — ...

For the unsuspecting, a title like “The Monk and the Gun” lands like a promise: Do you prepare for a mythic showdown or a mystic parable? That was undoubtedly what Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning ...