Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, recognized within the movie world as Khyentse Norbu, has accomplished principal pictures on “Good God,” following a month-long shoot in Kathmandu, Nepal. The manufacturing has unveiled the movie’s first appears to be like.

The movie, tailored from Nepali creator Samrat Upadhyay’s brief story “The Limping Bride” from his assortment “Arresting God in Kathmandu,” follows Ram, a middle-aged Behrupiya – a standard performer who impersonates gods and different figures at weddings and events round Kathmandu. When his spouse Maya dies out of the blue, Ram faces a disaster he can not carry out his method out of, left along with his alcoholic, unemployed son Moti, an aspiring avant-garde photographer.

“This movie got here from a quite simple feeling,” Norbu defined in an interview carried out by assistant director Abishek Budhathoki. “I’ve at all times been drawn to characters who dwell in between issues, between identities, between worlds. Individuals who don’t fairly match, however they hold performing, surviving.”

That encounter led Norbu to find the Behrupiya custom, which he mixed with Upadhyay’s story. “So many tales I like. I simply mix them collectively,” he stated.

The movie follows 2024’s “Pig on the Crossing,” which debuted on-line and 2019’s “The Woman with the Fangs and a Moustache,” which premiered on the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition. His earlier works embrace “The Cup” (1999), which premiered within the Administrators’ Fortnight at Cannes and gained the Viewers Award at Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition; “Travellers & Magicians” (2003), the primary full-length function shot in Bhutan; “Vara: A Blessing” (2013), which gained Greatest Characteristic Movie on the Tribeca On-line Movie Competition; and “Hema Hema: Sing Me a Tune Whereas I Wait” (2016).

“Good God” is produced by Sophie Perks, Max Dipesh Khatri of Shatkon Arts, and Tari Ratna Pradhan, with Vasily Andreev serving as government producer. Shatkon Arts, primarily based in Kathmandu, serves because the manufacturing firm.

When requested in regards to the movie’s title, Norbu mirrored on the idea of perfection in relation to spirituality. “Is there even such a factor as an ideal god?” he questioned. “For me, the right god – if we will use that time period – could be the fundamental goodness of a human being. That’s what perfection is, at the very least from a Buddhist perspective, I feel.”

Norbu brings a singular perspective to cinema, combining his profound understanding of Buddhist philosophy along with his filmmaking craft. He oversees a number of world nonprofit organizations and is answerable for the care and schooling of greater than 1,600 monks throughout six monasteries and institutes in Asia.

The movie is at present in post-production, with the crew focusing on worldwide competition premieres in 2026.