100 Sunset review – elliptical, elusive drama dreamlike through Toronto’s tight-knit Tibetan community

Kunsang Kyirong’s debut feature fades like a vapour trail in a mood of disorientation and dislocation

Not much happens and very little is explained in this elliptical, elusive drama by Canadian-Tibetan film-maker Kunsang Kyirong. Her film, her feature directing debut, takes us inside the tight-knit world of Toronto’s Tibetan community, using a cast of nonprofessional actors. It drifts in a dreamlike manner as it follows introverted 18-year-old Kunsel (Kenzin Kunsel), who lives in a grey slab high-rise block nicknamed Sunset Towers; its Tibetan residents seem to know everything about each other’s business. Her uncle Geysar (Tsering Bawa) is the caretaker, and runs card games out of their apartment.