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Vinneren av beste regissør på Black Nights-festivalen i Tallinn, i det nokså nye programmet Critics’ Picks var Dechen Roder for "Jeg er Sangen", som handler om en kvinne på søken etter det som må være hennes dobbeltgjenger, etter at en sexvideo med sistnevnte er spredd på nettet med alvorlige konsekvenser for hovedkarakteren. Det stemningsfulle og mangesidige mysteriedramaet fra Bhutan er støttet av Sørfond med norske Fernanda Rennó fra Fidalgo Film Production som co-produsent. ---- Bhutan is supposedly the world's happiest country — and yet problems exist here, too. Nima (Tandin Bidha), a teacher, learns this the hard way when the headmaster summons her to his office and shows her an amateur porn video going viral on the Internet — with her in the starring role. Although she swears it is not her, but someone deceptively similar, she is banned from working with children. The starting point, reminiscent of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, takes an unexpected turn. To clear her name, Nima embarks on a search for her doppelgänger. She follows the trail of a certain Meto, but to find her and lift the curse, she must surrender herself to the song. Magical sounds connect two time-spaces and two very similar, yet at the same time very different women — or perhaps, as in Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique, they are simply two variants of the same person? In addition to its ethnomusicological value and its promotion of centuries-old Bhutanese songs and contemporary pop pieces, Dechen Roder’s extraordinary film reflects on the situation of women in a world where Buddhist traditions blend with the challenges of modernity. The author of Honeygiver Among the Dogs has created a moody and oneiric film, one that at times feels like a terrifying bad dream.