From post conflict struggles in rural Nepal, to HIV infected bodybuilders, the movies offer a variety of issues that many will be able to resonate with, or at the very least be thought provoking.[break]
From the 11 screenings today, Republica would recommend the following:
Screening @ Rastriya Sabha Griha
Pooja (57 min, 45 sec, Nepal)
Director: Deepak Rauniyar
11:00 am
A pregnant young girl Pooja Singh Thakuri Rai, 17, of Saune – Sunsari is dead. Who is to be blamed for her untimely demise? How did Pooja die? The film is an attempt on exploring the answer, why do hundreds of mothers die every year? This film tells the story from three different perspectives – father, husband and mother-in-law.
In Search of Wahhabis in Dangestan Mountains
(52 min. Russia )
Director: Tofik Shakhverdiev (Russia)
2:00 pm
Dangestan is a hot spot in Russia, where almost every day someone is killed. The film was shot in the villages in the mountains. People live a simple life and there are no Wahhabis and terrorists. There’s no big money, no big job and there is no reason to kill each other. High in the mountains, away from the big cities live a peaceful people.
Saving Dolma (55 min, Nepal)
Director: Kesang Tseten
3:00 pm
The film follows Dolma, sentenced to death for allegedly killing a Filipino co-domestic worker in Kuwait, and the multiple responses this evokes – of a women’s advocacy group, society and officialdom, and, finally the upheaval and fractures of the family.
It offers a rare glimpse of the life of women migrant workers in a Gulf State; and shows the fundamentally vulnerable condition of the ill-prepared, though courageous and resilient, women from a poor country making what could be the most hazardous journey of their lives.
Screening @ Nepal Tourism Board
Lychee Thieves (29 min, USA)
Director: Kathleen Man
2:00 pm
Protecting highly prized lychee fruit – at any cost. Arnie and Ethel’s suspicions are stirred when a Hawaiian stranger named Keoki offers to harvest their lychee. When Arnie’s selfish impulses drive him to hire professional pickers for the task instead., Keoki realizes that their lives are being dictated by fear, and attempts to set things right.
Pesarane Paeez (The Boys of Autumn) (27 min, Iran)
Director: Mehdi Rahmani
2:30 pm
About the hard choices that parents make. Yaser and yousef are brothers who live with their father. They are eight and nine. The father makes them do unusual and hard works to earn money and prevents them from going to school. The only one who can help them is their mother who is engaged in her new life and does not take any responsibility.
“The Eccentricities of British Rock-climbing”
3:30 pm
Lecture / Slideshow: Terry Gifford, climber and author – “The Joy of Climbing”.
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