Price of Knowledge

Price of Knowledge

烏根,王吉Ugyen WANGDI
1999
  • Bhutan
35min
Colour

Price of Knowledge

Synopsis
Day by day, 11 year old Sherab Dorji walks three hours to school. In the early morning he meets the other children from his village at a chorten, a Buddhist shrine. From there, they walk to school together singing out aloud. The road leads across a mountain and through the woods. The parents are constantly afraid of their children running into wild animals along the path. Price of Knowledge casually depicts life in rural Bhutan.