Films
TREMBLING MOUNTAIN
The film shows a glimpse of gritty migrant conditions, rarely permitted to be filmed by the Gulf states, with its well-known sensitivity to outside criticism of its labour policies and practices.
2016; 83 min
HOSPITAL
This is an unusually intimate portrait of a state-run hospital in one of Nepal’s most remote and poorest districts of Kalikot in West Nepal.
2016; 59 min
CASTAWAY MAN
Dor Bahadur Bista, one of Nepal’s most controversial intellectuals in modern times, disappeared without trace in 1996.
2015; 82 min
WHO WILL BE A GURKHA
The recruitment of the Gurkhas has been a subject of much fascination, this despite the fact that the number of Gurkhas recruited for the British Army has dwindled from the 200,000 who fought during the Second World to a couple hundred. Young Nepalis, however, continue to be lured to become ‘lahureys’, the common name for ‘Gurkhas’, named after Lahore, then the conscripting base.
2012; 86 min
IN SEARCH OF THE RIYAL
The film shows a glimpse of gritty migrant conditions, rarely permitted to be filmed by the Gulf states, with its well-known sensitivity to outside criticism of its labour policies and practices. The stories of disillusionment and, occasional, transformation, capture the essence of the Nepali migrant experience, and the enormity of his journey.
2012; 75 min
THE DESERT EATS US
The film provides a rare glimpse of the migrant experience in Qatar, where they outnumber natives by 3 to 1. Their struggle to endure long working hours in stultifying heat, burdened by loans and high expectations of home, and the upheaval and fractures of emotional life is overwhelming, unhinging the compass of their lives.
2011; 68 min
SAVING DOLMA
The film looking at women migrant workers follows the thread of Dolma, sentenced to death for killing a Filipino co-domestic in Kuwait.
2010; 63 min
FRAMES OF WAR
Yudha Chitra (Frames of War) is a stark reminder that peace has not yet come for those directly affected by Nepal’s 11-year conflict.
2008; 40 min
WE CORNER PEOPLE
They call themselves ‘corner’ people. No settlement lies beyond their high hills.
2007; 50 min
ON THE ROAD WITH THE RED GOD: MACHHENDRANATH
Every 12 years, impassioned devotees pull a 65-feet tall unwieldy chariot in the Kathmandu Valley.
2005; 72 min
WE HOMES CHAPS
This film explores the fragile ground where love and unlove cohabit, illuminating a rare space where the two are in close.
2002; 61 min
LISTEN TO THE WIND
Set in the Sherpa village of Khumjung, in
the lap of Mt. Everest, 13-year-old Dawa does not have usual boy
interests. His best friend is an old nomad.
1999; 32 min
BOY FROM MY WINDOW
A boy on a terrace across my window, a domestic worker, sweeps, waters plants, washes clothes
2014; 14 min
MEN AT WORK
This film is an ode to the commonplace. Its four segments or chapters are slighter narratives that the commonplace, everyday situations, yield and with interest; all was needed was a steady gaze of interest to discover these.
2013; 64 min
THE RIYALISTS
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 traces the trajectories of the four men since then and over 12 years
2021; 69 min
DIVERSITY PLAZA
Himalayan immigrants in Jackson Heights, New York, reconcile two worlds, the new one and the one they left behind, creating a strand of diversity that expands and enriches the American cultural landscape.
2023; 69 min