100 SUNSET (2025, 99 mins)
“A Parkdale apartment complex becomes a place of intrigue, desire, and deceit in this stunning mystery drama...Kyirong establishes herself as one of Canadian cinema’s most exciting new filmmakers.”
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Kunsel is an introverted young woman living in the Tibetan immigrant community of west Toronto, where she commits petty theft and spies on her neighbours through a camcorder. When newcomer Passang moves into the neighbourhood with her much older husband, Kunsel is gradually drawn out of her solitary, watchful existence.
Titled after the apartment complex address around which the film is set, Kunsang Kyirong’s auspicious debut feature is a richly detailed portrait of Toronto’s Tibetan Canadian community, as well as a fascinating character study of two women alienated in more ways than one. Reminiscent of the icy post-Hitchcockian thrillers of Claude Chabrol, this is the rare film whose enigmas only deepen as it unfolds.
“...richly layered and quietly brilliant...like watching Aftersun, Rear Window, and In the Mood for Love all at once.”
“At once precise and suggestive, 100 Sunset vibrates on dual frequencies of intimacy and unease that make it one of the most accomplished Canadian debuts in recent memory.”
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Additional positive critical coverage by Variety, Elle, Tricycle, Now Toronto, In Review Onilne, The Moveable Fest, CBC Metro Morning, and more.
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(2025, Forthcoming)
An epistolary exchange between a British colonial officer stationed in Tibet and a contemporary archivist.
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DHULPA (2022, 16mm, 18 minutes)
Winner of the Jury Prize at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Dhulpa weaves together narrative and documentary elements to tell the stories of a group of Tibetan immigrants. Unexpected bonds form and romantic entanglements emerge against the backdrop of a local laundry facility.
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YARLUNG
(2020, 5 mins)
Yarlung tells the story of three children who experience the death of a loved one during the heat of midsummer in the Tibetan village of Tezu, India. As they navigate the loss, they return time and again to the nearby Yarlung Tsangpo river, each time stepping into new waters.
Featured on The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and interviewed by State of the Planet at Columbia Climate School