Why does a monk need a gun in the face of change in Bhutan?The Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. A hard-to-reach Himalayan country opens up to modernisation - the last in the world to adopt television and connect to the internet. As the King abdicates his throne, the country prepares for the biggest change of all: democracy. The first step is to tell the population what elections are and how to vote. For the organisers, this becomes a challenge full of paradoxes and comical situations. In a remote village, where religion is much more powerful than the idea of democracy, rumour has it that the chief lama is preparing for a special ceremony. All that is known about the ritual is that, in the words of the lama, "everything needs to be fixed". A monk sent by him is looking for two guns in a country where they are almost non-existent. The Monk and the Gun, which won the Audience Choice Award at the Vancouver and Mumbai International Film Festivals and was shortlisted for the Oscars, is Bhutanese director Pawo Choyning Dorji's second film. The director made Bhutan's Oscar history in only its third decade of cinema history when his first film, shot in the remotest human habitation, Lunana. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) was nominated in the Best Foreign Film category.The film is in Dzongkha, English with Lithuanian subtitles.