Price of Knowledge

Made by Bhutans first filmmaker Ugyen Wangdi Price of Knowledge 1999 is also Bhutans first documentary Day by day 11 year old Sherab Dorji walks three hours to school In the early morning he meets the other children of his village at a chorten a Buddhist shrine From there they walk to school together singing The road leads across a mountain and through the woods The parents are constantly afraid of their children meeting up with wild animals along the path When Sherab walks the last part by himself in the evening he prays aloud to fight his fear They walk so much his father says that their socks tear within a week Sherabs family depends on subsistence farming Sherab and his familys life are presented in a touching realistic portrait of rural Bhutan in 1999