KALAM KALAM premiered at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival in South Korea in the Asian Wide Angle category. It won Best Film and Best Director at the 2020 Nepal International Film Festival and has played at over 100 festivals worldwide. JAALGEDI-A CURIOUS GIRL JAALGEDI — A CURIOUS GIRL debuted at the 2017 Busan International Film Festival, won Best Short Film at Berlinale Kplus and the Asia-Pacific Film Festival (2018), and was an official selection at the 2018 Zagreb Film Festival. SONG OF CLOUDS SONGS OF CLOUDS premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won the REMI Award at Houston WorldFest. It was also selected for Palm Springs ShortFest, Raindance, DokuFest, Asolo, Split (Grand Prix Shorts), Montreal FNC, Kyiv Molodist, and the Atlanta Film Festival. A YEAR(2018) A YEAR premiered at Telluride (2018), won Best Student Film at Woodstock and Best Film School Short at River (2019), and played at Florida, HollyShorts, Boston, New Orleans, and San Diego Asian film festivals. YET ANOTHER YEAR(2021) YET ANOTHER WINTER premiered at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival. It won Best Fiction in the Nepal Panorama at KIMFF, was selected for the 2022 Odense International Film Festival, and previously won Best Student Film at the 2018 Woodstock Film Festival. BLACK GOAT BLACK GOAT premiered at the 2019 Austin Film Festival and won the Jury Award for Narrative Student Short. It later won Best Live Action Short (Oscar-qualified) at the 2020 St. Louis International Film Festival and played at the Atlanta, Palm Springs, Encounters, and Edinburgh International Film Festivals. WHEELS ON THE BUS After being bullied into forging iron wheels for his upper-caste peers, BHYAL (12), a lower-caste blacksmith’s son, and his upper-caste friend LABA (11) find themselves pushed beyond the bounds of custom and expectation, forced to defy rigid social rules by taking matters into their own hands. A PAPER PLAN A PAPER PLANE premiered at the 8th Bastau International Film Festival in Kazakhstan (2019) and was subsequently selected to screen at Jehlum Film Festival, the Lift-Off Global Network Sessions, KIMFF, and the Pame Film and Music Festival.
