
Kunsang Kyirong
Directing
Biography
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.
Known For

A young mechanic named Doug is caught in the middle of a draught. He encounters a washed up shark, hungry and dying. Doug strikes a bargain with the shark in exchange for sparing his life, he will turn it into a car. They drive around killing humans, quenching the shark’s hunger.
SHARK CAR: The Movie

Kunsang Kyirong sets her tale of theft, betrayal, and something like magical redemption in a Parkdale housing complex.
100 Sunset

A young boy comes to terms with grief, but the ice cracks beneath, as surfaces of the past reform once again.
Ice, Skating

Groups of Tibetan immigrants from small communities work in a Canadian laundry facility- mostly strangers to each other, but all part of a broader wave of Tibetan immigration that took place roughly between 2011 and 2017. With their social circles suddenly expanded, new romantic entanglements arise.
Dhulpa

This whimsical tale employs fluidly animated charcoal drawings to relate the stories of three Tibetan children who live in the town of Tezu, Arunachal Pradesh. Faced with a death in the family, each child expresses themself differently, via their relationship with the Yarlong Tsangpo river—the upper stream of the Brahmaputra, and the longest waterway in Tibet.