Sano Sansar : Stories of Middleclass 2024
A middle class family is thrown into chaos when the youngest daughter expresses her desire to go abroad, secrets & resentment hiding inside the exterior threatens to destroy the family from the inside.
A middle class family is thrown into chaos when the youngest daughter expresses her desire to go abroad, secrets & resentment hiding inside the exterior threatens to destroy the family from the inside.
The film “Nametine Ghau” is based on the stories of acid attack victims. It sheds light on the struggles, resilience, and courage of 33 young girls who survived such horrific attacks. The movie portrays their journey from trauma to empowerment, highlighting their fight for justice and societal acceptance.
Bholanath (84 year old) is counting his last days. He has come to live in the city with his grandson and daughter in law. He shares a room with his grandson. Boredom on deathbed makes Bholanath reminisce about various parts of his life. He gets delusional and gets haunted by daydreams, old age and impending death to reevaluate his life. Grandson seems devoted in the service of his invalid grandfather, but time to time he gets irritated by the uncivilized and old aged behavior of his grandfather. The impending and intolerable pain of death bed of his grandpa compels him to question his own existence.
The life of an expat Nepali woman in the UAE turns upside down when she loses a small amount of money while trying to buy a laptop for her son in Nepal.
In 1994, the Nepalese film "Truck Driver," belonging to the Romance/Drama genres, was crafted by writer Brazesh Khanal and director Rajkumar Sharma. The leading roles featured Shiv Shrestha, Karishma Manandhar, Shree Krishna Shrestha, Madan Krishna Shrestha, and Hari Bansha Acharya. This cinematic creation not only secured its place among Nepal's highest-grossing films but also showcased the comedic talents of the popular Maha Jodi duo, who were celebrated comedians during that era. The film's songs also achieved widespread acclaim, solidifying its cultural impact in Nepal.
When Dhuckia's father discovers that she is showing the early symptoms of leprosy, he must make a devastating choice. Based on a true story.
The wealth and opulence of the Gulf States in the Middle East were built on the labor of cheap labor from foreign countries. In 2009, four young Nepali men left their villages for the Arab Gulf, their stories, like those of a few million that keep the country afloat, often disillusioning and, as often, empowering, captured in the film In Search of the Riyal. The Riyalists trace the trajectories of the four men since then and over 12 years, a chronicle of Nepali labor migration, illuminating the experiences for up to 3 million Nepali working Qatar (2022 FIFA venue), UAE and other Gulf States the last few decades.
Sonam (50) and his estranged son Karma (20) journey to ancestral monasteries in the mountains of Nepal to light butter lamps in memory of Sonam's deceased wife, before Karma leaves for Australia to study.
This is not the official description but This film appears to have been lost to time, with no one recalling its details, and its poster is seemingly absent from any archives.
"Hijo Aajha Bholi" narrates the tale of events occurring yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
This film follows two women in rural Nepal, Bishnumaya Gurung, 48 and Palhamu Sherpa, 66. After struggling all their lives due to illiteracy, these women are now making their way back to primary school along with their grandchildren. The film explores what drives these women and what they hope to accomplish in the future.
Punte ko Pangro is a story about a child in the countryside of the Kathmandu valley. We follow Punte, a playful boy, who has a toy wheel of his own, but he will do anything to get a bigger one. In his pursuit, he discovers his aspiration and ultimately own potential. The wheel is used as a symbol of supremacy to portray human desire and our passionate struggle to reach higher positions in society.
The story of Rukhsana Kapali, a 19-year-old trans woman in Nepala, showing her struggle for the acceptance and recognition of her identity.
A psychiatrist is trying to help a young schizophrenic patient win over his imagination with some rather unconventional methods.
At school, they preach that all evil will return in the next life. But nobody looks when Bhyal's classmates blackmail him to make wheels for their toy bus. Bhyal, who lives with his mother on the outskirts of the village and works as an iron smith at night is an ‘Untouchable’. A cinematic examination of the caste system in a small mountain village in Nepal.
In her dreams, a devout woman is visited by her deceased husband, stranded in the liminal space between death and the afterlife. With her son, she embarks on a mystic errand to help him on his quest for salvation. Religion, spirituality, and the universal human condition are intricately woven in this tale about the agony of accepting loss, while navigating the dissonance between letting go and holding onto that which has passed.
A film crew travels across remote villages in Western Nepal looking for the perfect kid who can play the 'Hero' in their upcoming film.
This documentary explores the upbringing of transgender model Anjali, in a small village in the hilly district of Nuwakot, a district neighboring capital city Kathmandu, the discrimination she faced, the struggle she did after coming to Kathmandu and also about her dreams and hopes about the future.
A haunting visual fever dream, and a meditation on the afterlife; the journey to the next world, and what gets left behind among the living.
The Whole Timers is an upcoming Nepali movie based on the decade long civil war in Nepal. It is told from the perspective of a 13-year-old boy who joins the Maoist revolution in the hope that a gun will help him find his missing father. But he discovers something much more powerful in the cameras carried by members of his platoon who are documenting the war.