Travellers and Magicians

Travellers and Magicians
DVD cover
Directed byKhyentse Norbu
Written byKhyentse Norbu
Produced byRaymond Steiner
Malcolm Watson
StarringNeten Chokling
Tshewang Dendup
Lhakpa Dorji
Sonam Kinga
Sonam Lhamo
Deki Yangzom
CinematographyAlan Kozlowski
Edited byJohn Scott
Lisa-Anne Morris
Distributed byZeitgeist Films
Release date
  • 2003 (2003)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryBhutan
LanguageDzongkha
Budget$1.8 million[1]

Travellers and Magicians[a] is a 2003 Bhutanese Dzongkha-language film written and directed by Khyentse Norbu, writer and director of the arthouse film The Cup. The movie is the first feature film shot entirely in the Kingdom of Bhutan. The majority of the cast are not professional actors; Tshewang Dendup, a well-known Bhutanese radio actor and producer, is the exception.

  1. ^ Clayton, Sue (April 2007). "Film-making in Bhutan: The view from Shangri-La". New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film. 5 (1): 79. doi:10.1386/ncin.5.1.75_4.
  2. ^ Halkias, Georgios T. (December 2018). "Great Journeys in Little Spaces: Buddhist Matters in Khyentse Norbu's Travellers and Magicians". International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture. 28 (2): 205–223. doi:10.16893/IJBTC.2018.12.28.2.205.


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