SONGS OF CLOUDS (2020)
15 MINUTES | EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
WRITER/DIRECTOR Ankit Poudel
PRODUCER Ankit Poudel, Sajina GC
LOGLINE
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.
SYNOPSIS
The film tells the story of waiting for the rain. Until the rain actually falls, not only a whole life is told, a life of love, joy, pain and of migration, but also the eternal story of living and dying. Nature is the stage where everything takes place. Song of Clouds is a filmic poem about human beings between this world and the next, between the longing for the lost and the confident expectation of the world to come. In pictures like paintings, and the very careful sound work, a suction is created from which one cannot escape.
SONGS OF CLOUDS premiered at Sundance Film Festival (2020), the film 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 Atlanta Film Festival.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS
WORLD PREMIERE Sundance Film Festival, USA (2020)
REMI WINNER Houston International Film (53rd Annual Worldfest), USA (2020)
Asolo Art Film Festival (2020)
Doku Fest (2020)
Palm Spring International Film Festival (Short Fest) (2020)
Raindance Film Festival (2020)
Split Film Festival (Grand Prix Shorts) (2020)
Montreal Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (2020)
49th Kyiv International Film Festival Modlist (2020)
Atlanta Film Festival (2020)
CAST
Dhana Maya Gurung
Sudarshan Gurung
Nmita Tamang
Prem Tamang
CREW
DIRECTOR: Ankit Poudel
PRODUCER: Ankit Poudel, Sajina GC
CO PRODUCER: Nigam Bhandari, Nawanidhi Dahal
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ankit Poudel
EDITOR: Sandeep Shrestha
SOUND: Kishor Acharya
COLOURIST: Sanjeev Ratna Shakya
