Kunsang Kyirong’s debut 100 Sunset is a quiet marvel, set in Toronto’s Little Tibet community. It follows Kunsel, played with delicate restraint by Tenzin Kunsel, a reserved teenager who observes her world through the lens of a camcorder. When she befriends Passang (Sonam Choekyi), a recent arrival, the bond between them becomes both a window and a mirror for displacement and identity.
Kyirong crafts the film with patience, letting apartments, stairwells, and alleyways hum with life. The film thrives on small gestures: a glance, a hesitation, the hum of a radiator. Its mystery is not in plot twists but in how it captures the uncertainty of belonging. Performances drawn from within the Tibetan Canadian community ground the film in authenticity, creating an atmosphere that feels lived in rather than staged. Kyirong’s eye lingers on light and shadow, crafting images that haunt as much as they soothe.
100 Sunset is not loud cinema, but its quiet force resonates long after the screen fades.
100 Sunset is playing at TIFF ’25. For more information, click here.
