The annual Himalaya Film Festival held in Amsterdam 6-7 November attracted 1,750 visitors over a two-day period. Nearly 50 films from the Himalayan region were screened, including conflict documentaries by Mohan Mainali and Nepathya's quest for the origins of the folk song, Bheda ko oon jasto, in search of a song. Some of the jury members were Nabin Subba, director of Numafung, Danish anthropologist Ditte Marie Seeberg and Dutch filmmaker Dirk J Nijland. Mainali also delivered a lecture on 'Democracy in Undemocratic Nepal: An Eternal Source of Violent Conflict'.