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The Bhutan Film Database (bhutanfilms.bt) is an online portal providing information about Bhutanese films, filmmakers, and the Bhutanese film industry. It serves as a reference resource for cataloguing and documenting the output of Bhutan's cinema industry, which began in earnest with the release of the first feature film, Gasa Lamai Singye, in 1989, and grew significantly in the 2000s and 2010s.
Bhutan's film industry produces an average of thirty films per year as of 2011, primarily in Dzongkha, influenced by Bollywood conventions but increasingly incorporating local Buddhist traditions, folklore, and social themes. The database aims to catalogue this body of work in a structured format. Notable Bhutanese films documented in the broader discourse include Travellers & Magicians (2003) by Khyentse Norbu, the first feature film entirely shot within Bhutan, and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019), the first Bhutanese film to receive an Academy Award nomination. The Bhutan Film Database provides a national registry for tracking titles, directors, cast, and production details.
The portal is freely accessible online at bhutanfilms.bt and was developed as a React web application. It is operated from Bhutan and provides a searchable catalogue of Bhutanese film productions.