‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’ Review: Remote Learning

In Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film, a teacher is assigned to a school that’s an eight-day walk from where he lives.

‘Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom’ Review: Remote Learning

The New York Times – by Nicolas Rapold

In “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,” an indifferent young teacher, Ugyen, is assigned to a school high in the mountains of Bhutan. This is far from where he’d rather be — Australia — and it’s an eight-day schlep by foot from where he currently lives, the modern Bhutanese city of Thimphu. As Ugyen makes the trek with two guides, the director, Pawo Choyning Dorji, shows the declining population and rising altitude along the way. Lunana numbers less than 100 residents.

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