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New streaming platform Beskop has recently launched, offering the first service to focus solely on Bhutanese cinema. The site features such films as Dechen Roder’s “Honeygiver Among the Dogs” and Ugyen Wangdi’s “Price of Letter”, along with a selection of short films. With a growing library of curated films, you can check out the official site for full catalogue and future news/releases.

To celebrate the beginning of the streaming service and our cooperation with Beskop, we offer 10 lucky viewers the opportunity to watch the (already quite affordable) titles with a 50% price off.

Just comment with your name and country on the website or the corresponding articles on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and win 10 codes to watch any of the films with a 50% price off. The first 10 will receive the codes. The codes are just for the “rent” option.

To help you with your selection, here are four...

Homer’s “Odyssey” is one of the most renowned pieces of literature worldwide, and probably one of the first “road” novels ever to appear. The adventures of the honomymous protagonist, in his way to reach Ithaca, his homeland, from Troy, have been inspiring artists and influencing ways of thinking for centuries. Thus, it is a surprise to come across a documentary that takes place in the latest millennium and focuses on a man who seems to experience an odyssey once a month, as he delivers mail by foot to Lingshi, a high mountain village, a trip that takes about a week each way.

“Price of Letter” is screening on Beskop

The person in question is 49-years-old (at the time) Ugyen Tenzin, the last postal runner of Bhutan, who has been working for the post, doing the aforementioned delivery once a month, for 26 years. Ugyen Wangdi, Bhutan’s first filmmaker, followed...

New streaming platform Beskop has recently launched, offering the first service to focus solely on Bhutanese cinema. The site features such films as Dechen Roder’s “Honeygiver Among the Dogs” and Ugyen Wangdi’s “Price of Letter”, along with a selection of short films. With a growing library of curated films, you can check out the official site for full catalogue and future news/releases.

From the official site:

As the first site for streaming films from Bhutan we are excited to not only share films with the world, but to also unravel and share the story of Bhutanese cinema.

Bhutan’s cinema started in 1989 with the film “Gasa Lama Singye”…

It was made by Bhutan’s first filmmaker Ugyen Wangdi. His documentaries are available here for streaming (currently Price of Education and soon Price of Letter). The first film of Bhutan had a very small release, as at the...

National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) unveiled the 23 projects that will participate at the co-production market at Film Bazaar to be held during the International Film Festival of India 2011 in Goa.

It includes Ketan Mehta’s Noor-The Princess Spy and Dibakar Banerjee’s The Boy and the Bandit.

Film Bazaar 2011

Apple Tower; dir. Rajiv Mohite [India]

Trial (Azmaish); dir. Sabiha Sumar [Pakistan]

Burqa Boxers; dir. Alka Raghuram [Us]

Four Colours (Chauranga); dir. Bikas Mishra [India]

The Bicycle (Cycle); dir. Khanjan Kishore Nath [India]

Diary of a Housewife; dir. Rubaiyat Hossain [Bangladesh]

Druk Gi Suung; dir. Ugyen Wangdi [Bhutan]

Free Fall; dir. Sopan Muller [India]

The Vegetarian (Il Vegetariano); dir. Roberto San Pirtro [Italy]

Kumari; dir. Tsering Rhitar Sherpa [Nepal]

Liar’s Dice; dir. Geetu Mohan Das [India]

I’m A Bhopali Aren’t I? (Main Bhopali Hun Na!); dir. Jay Bajaj

Mea Culpa; dir. Prasanna Jayakody & Sumudu Guruge [Sri Lanka]

Gun (Nongmei); dir. Haobam Paban Kumar [India]

Noor – The Princess Spy; dir. Ketan Mehta [India]

Scarlet Poppy; dir.

Alison Murray's Mouth to Mouth breathed in the majority of adulation Sunday night at the eighth Brooklyn International Film Festival in New York. The road-trip film took home two lead prizes, the Grand Chameleon award and the prize for best feature. Ugyen Wangdi's Bhutan-based travelogue Price of Letter (Yi Khel Gi Kawa) won the Diane Seligman award for best documentary, Mattan Guggenheim's Crickets won for best short, Gabriel Judet-Weinshel picked up the best experimental prize for Facechasers, and Philippe Grammaticopoulos nabbed an award for best animation with Le Regulateur.