FILMS
Writer/Director: Surya Shahi
After being bullied into making iron wheels for his upper caste peers, BHYAL (12), a lower caste black-smith boy and his upper caste friend LABA (11), are compelled to break social conventions by taking matters into their own hands.
Writer/Director: Ankit Poudel
A haunting visual fever dream. Simultaneously, a meditation on the afterlife; the journey to the other-world and what gets left behind among the living; and the pain and yearning of return.
Writer/Director: Tang Yi
Pasang, a new girl at a nunnery, has her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story. She keeps it secret until she bleeds at a prayer session. She believes that she has been cursed and needs to sacrifice a black goat to avoid further misfortune.
Writer/Director: Kiran Shrestha
A timeless and boundless moving portrait of the persistent mother, determined to find a voice of her innocent deaf child, desperately seeking for ways; following her faith(Shaman) towards the temple, who walks on an inner and outer journey to realize the voice within herself.
Writer/Director: Prabin Kumar Rawat
As shadows of violence reach Nepali villages during the outset of a civil war, poor villagers migrate from Nepal to big cities of India to survive. A young boy wants to disobey his family and stay back to play football with his friends.
Writer/Director: Rajesh Prasad Khatri
Jaalgedi takes her family's animals to pastures outside her remote village. However, the arrival of a white tourist sends shockwaves among the children of the village. The inquisitive little girl gets distracted from her responsibilities for a while - following the strange white man around the village - only to find a catastrophe has befallen because of her innocent curiosities.
Writer/Director: Jisun Jamie Lee
A Himalayan village woman yearns to provide a better life for her young daughters. But the only possible option she sees is surrogacy – a choice that becomes a searing dilemma.
