If you live around Seattle, this weekend is certainly a Nepalese movie weekend with six movies being screened. Bhutanese Community Resource Center (BCRC) and Tasveer South Asian Film Festival are screening six different Nepalese movies (in Nepali and English language) in various theatres in Seattle, WA.
In Search of a Nation
BCRC is screening Bhutanese docudrama film “In Search of a Nation” on Date Oct 17th, 2015 at PAC Theatre Foster High School Tukwila, WA from 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm.
Here is the Synopsis of the movie:
The docudrama film “In Search of a Nation” is conceived by Bhutanese American film maker Pralhad Gurung. It about more then 120,000 refugee from Bhutan living in refugee camp in Nepal.
The ongoing resettlement program for forgotten Bhutanese refugees has scattered them to various western countries, but their search for a nation would continue forever.
More Info:
Original title: Desh Khojdai Janda (In Search of a Nation)
Conceived: Pralhad Gurung
Director: Prakash Angdembe
Executive Producer: Birendra Chhetri
Ticket: $ 12/- as donation available at door.
There are five Nepalese movies in this year’s South Asian Film Festival.
Drawing The Tiger
Amy Benson, Scott Squire & Ramyata Limbu, US/Nepal, 98 mins, 2015
Saturday Oct 17th, noon @ SIFF Film Center
Co-Director Present
It is filmed over seven years, is an intimate portrait of a family in rural Nepal who get a chance to break their cycle of poverty after their brightest child is awarded a scholarship to attend school in the city.
The Refugees of Shangri La
Doria Bramante, Bhutan/Nepal, 55 mins, 2014
Sunday Oct 18th, noon @ SIFF Film Center
After twenty years surviving refugee camps in Nepal, the Kingdom of Bhutan’s forgotten exiles abandon hopes of returning to their lost land and seek a new life in a place called America.
Sunakali
Bhojraj Bhat, Nepal, 51 mins, 2014
Sunday Oct 18th, noon @ SIFF Film Center
A story of teenage girls and their journey to glory in Mugu and development in the mountains.
Hokse
Prasanna Poudyal, Nepal/USA, 7 mins, 2014
Sunday Oct 18th, noon @ SIFF Film Center
Director Present
Hokse based on the true story of a village Hokse also known as Kidney village where due to poverty people are forced to sell one of their kidneys at some point in their life to earn money. The film is produced by Seattle resident Krish Rizal.
Bayberries have Ripened
Niranjan Raj Bhetwal, Nepal, 16 mins, 2015
Sunday Oct 25th, 4 pm @ Carco Theatre, Renton
The film is set in the countryside of Nepal during the civil war period, where most men were either abroad or displaced because of the war.