Whole Grain: 100 Sunset (2025) with Filmmaker Kunsang Kyirong
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Join us Thursday, March 19, at 6 pm, for a Whole Grain: Experiments in Film & Video screening of 100 Sunset (Canada, 2025, video, 99 min.). Kunsang Kyirong will introduce the film and answer questions following.
This screening is co-presented by the Department of Asian Studies, Media & Film Studies, and the Tang.
About the Film
Kunsel (Tenzin Kunsel) is an introverted young woman living in the Tibetan immigrant community of west Toronto, where she commits petty theft and spies on her neighbors through a camcorder. However, when newcomer Passang (Sonam Choekyi) moves into the neighborhood with her much older husband, Kunsel is gradually drawn out of her solitary, watchful existence. The presence of a dhikuti—a communal lending practice in which participants contribute a fixed monthly sum to be redistributed back to community members—adds a $200,000 payout to an already volatile mix of intrigue and betrayal.
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. (Description from the Vancouver International Film Festival.)
“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” (Toronto Star).
Kunsang Kyirong
Kunsang Kyirong is a Tibetan-Canadian filmmaker. Her debut feature 100 Sunset premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was the recipient of the Best Canadian Discovery Award–Honorable Mention. Her work has exhibited at The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.
About Whole Grain
The Tang Museum’s Whole Grain series explores classic and contemporary work in experimental film and video. Whole Grain is programmed by Assistant Director for Engagement Tom Yoshikami. All events are free and open to the public.