27 September - 3 October #675

Festivals of films

Take a break from Dasain shopping and give your wallets a rest as Kathmandu gets ready to host two international film festivals

Film Southasia, now in its ninth year, makes its return with screenings of 55 movies from across the region in what promises to be an absolute visual treat. Ekadeshma too returns for its second edition with 30 short films by Nepali and international students. Organised by Underground Talkies, a production-house based in Kathmandu, the three-day long fest includes interactive sessions with the makers. Here is a sneak peek of the amazing stories that will unfold in the coming weeks.

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Film Southasia 2013

3-6 October

QFX Kumari, Kamal Pokhari

www.filmsouthasia.org

[email protected]

(01)5013501

Transgender: Pakistan’s Open Secret (2011)

4 October at 5pm, Hall 2

Duration: 53’

Language: Urdu

Country: Pakistan

Director: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

Many among Karachi’s transgender community scrape a living through dancing, singing, and begging on the streets. Others earn money catering to the sexual needs of men in the city’s seedier districts. 

No Fire Zone (2013)

5 October at 1pm, Hall 1

Duration: 93’

Language: English

Country: UK

Director:  Callum Macrae

No Fire Zone is the definitive story of the final, traumatic months of the 26-year-long Sri Lankan civil war as told by the people who lived through it.

Elemental (2012)

5 October at 1.15pm, Hall 2

Duration: 93’

Language: English, Hindi (with English subtitles)

Country: India/ Global

Director: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Gayatri Roshan

Three individuals are united by their connection with nature and desire to confront some of the most pressing ecological challenges of our time.

No Burqas Behind Bars (2012)

5 October at 4.45pm, Hall 2

Duration: 77’

Language: Dari

Country: Afghanistan

Director: Nima Sarvestani

Takhar Prison. 40 women, 34 children. Four cells, no burqas. Women tend to be faceless in public in Afghanistan, burqas covering them from head to toe. Their identities are masked, they are rendered invisible and voiceless.

Invoking Justice (2011)

5 October at 11.15am, Hall 2

Duration: 86’

Language: Tamil 

Country: India

Director: Deepa Dhanraj

Fed up with male-dominated jamaats (councils), where they cannot be represented, Mulsim women in South India set up their own council in 2004. 

Char ... No Man’s Island

6 October at 2.15pm, Hall 2

Duration: 88’

Language: Bengali

Country: India

Director: Sourav Sarangi

Fourteen-year-old Rubel smuggles rice from India into Bangladesh. He has to cross the River Ganga (Padma), which acts as the international border in this area.

The Voice of God (2011)

6 October at 1pm, Hall 1

Duration: 9’35

Language: Unknown, English

Country: India

Director: Bernd Lützeler

If God came down to earth and tried to earn a living in Bombay, he would probably end up as a successful voice-over artiste, lending a voice to thousands of films.


Ekadeshma

27-29 September

11am to 6pm

QFX Kumari, Kamal Pokhari

Sarwanam Theatre, Kalikasthan

www.ekadeshma.org

9841239505

Maanasi

28 September at 5pm, QFX Kumari

Duration: 18’20

Country: Nepal

Director: Kiran Pokhrel

Chhora

28 September at 5.40pm, QFX Kumari

Duration: 25’

Country: France/Nepal

Director: Subarna Thapa

Sahasi Chori

28 September at 1pm, QFX Kumari

Duration: 20’

Country: Nepal

Director: Erin Galey

The Contagious Apparitions of Dambarey Dendrite

28 September at 1.20pm, QFX Kumari

Duration: 18’30”

Country: Nepal

Directors: Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet