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Bhutan

Filmmaker · Bhutan

Ugyen Wangdi

Ugyen Wangdi grew up in Bhutan and in the mid-1980s attended the courses of the Film and Television Institute of India, in Pune, before founding the company Ugetsu Communications. A pioneer of his country's cinema, he went on to direct Yonten Gi Kawa, presented in 1998 as the first Bhutanese documentary, then Yi Khel Gi Kawa, in 2004, about a postman who for twenty-six years carried the mail on foot to the remote villages of the Himalayas.

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