That is why the five-day festival that begins tomorrow at City Hall and Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) will mainly focus on the globally emerging issue called “climate change.”
Over four dozen films covering a wide array of issues like conflicts, cultures, climbing, wildlife, environment, globalization, gender, climate change, and lifestyles will be screened back-to-back at both the aforementioned halls during the festival. With other details of KIMFF 2009 already discussed in Republica’s last week’s “Screen” edition, we give you the quick look at the festival schedule and some must-see films with their synopses.
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Film from the competitive category
KAREAREA
Directed by: Sandy Crichton
Language: English
Duration: 48 minutes
Synopsis: This award-winning tale tells the extraordinary story of how a population of wild New Zealand falcons has managed to survive in the face of fierce commercial forestry logging practices. It also tells the story of two friends – conservationist and director Sandy Crichton, and 88-year-old wildlife photographer George Chance. Bound by their mutual love and admiration for the falcons, Chance’s failing health and eyesight inspires the young Crichton to capture footage of the falcons as a tribute to the latter’s body of work from the 1970s.
From the non-competitive category
AFGHAN GIRLS CAN KICK
Directed by: Bahareh Hosseini
Language: Dari
Duration: 50 minutes
Synopsis: Afghan Girls Can Kick is an intimate fly-on-the-wall documentary portrait of teenage girls breaking the stereotypes set for them by an intensely conservative Afghan society, in some cases escaping grinding poverty, gaining self-esteem and confidence as players in Afghanistan’s first ever women’s national football team.
From Nepali panorama
IN SEARCH OF THE RIYAL
Directed by: Kesang Tseten
Language: English
Duration: 88 minutes
Synopsis: Nepal has rapidly become a pipeline of cheap labor for the Gulf in the last two decades. Young men set out to escape their family woes and grinding poverty, albeit at a high cost, to earn wages of US$6 a day in the alien and stultifying conditions of the Gulf. The film shows a glimpse of gritty migrant conditions, rarely permitted to be filmed by the Gulf States.
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