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Jiri Film Festival

Jiri, 2007-03-30  [ Press Release ]

Activity Information

29th March 6:00 AM - Departure - Bus leaves nepa~laya with delegate and guests from Kathmandu
  2:00 PM - Arrives Jiri – rest
30th March 9:00 AM - Festival inauguration and indoor screening of films starts back to back till 6:30 PM
  1:00 PM - Interaction – Journalism as Career.
Speaker – Kunda Dixit
  4:00 PM - Presentation – Jiri ko Sapana – Dream of Jiri by Mr. I.B. Khadka on behalf of Jiri residents
  7:00 PM - Open air Film Screening - Caravan
31st March 6:00 AM - Hike to Cheese factory (around 6 hours)
(options available for half route – 3 hour hike)
  9:00 AM - Indoor Screening resumes
  1:00 PM - Interaction – Filmmaking as Career
Speakers – Kesang Tseten and Nabin Subba
  7:00 PM - Open air Film Screening – Numafung
- closing of the festival
1st April 6:00 AM - Short hike around Jiri (3 hours)
  10:00 AM - Farewell by local organisers to delegates and guests.
  11:00 AM - Depart for Kathmandu
  7:00 PM - Arrive Kathmandu


Film Screening Schedule


March 30, 2007
9:00 Uhile ko Nepal (47')
Dir. Toni Hagen
Nepal 50 years ago.
10:30 On the Road with the Red God (52')
Dir. Kesang Tseten (in person)
The Chariot journey of Matchindranath
11:45 Killing Terraces (56')
Dir. Dhurba Basnet (in person)
Epicenter of the Maoist movement
1:00 State of Fear (94')
Dir. Pamella Yates
An account of the Signing Path in Peru.
2:45 I am a Mangolian Boy (26')
A day in a life of a Mongilian boy

Yearning for Learning
(22')
Dir. Kedar Sharma (in person)
Interest for education amidst daily chore.
4:15 The Last Race (23')
Dir. Alex Gabby & Subina Shrestha
(fiction) – story of friendship in Manang.

Sukhabahadur Grade IV (23')
Dir. Dil Bhusan Pathak (in person)
A Grandpa joins granddaughter to school.
5:15 Bhedako Oon Jasto (55')
Dir. Kiran Krishna Shrestha (in person)
A Jounalist and a Singer searches the root of a song in the mountains.
   
Open Air Screening
7:00 Caravan
Dir. Eric Vali
(Fiction) salt trade caravan arrives from Tibet.
   
March 31, 2007
9:00

Chulo Choli ra Bandhuk (26')
Dir. Subina Shrestha
Women in Maoist Insurgency.

Timber to Tibet (28')
Dir. Mohan Mainali (in person)
Story of gorkha – selling precious timber at dirt price.

10:30 A rough cut in the life and times of Laxman Magar 
Dir. Dinesh Deokota (39')
Life of a Normal man with many stories.
11:30 Kathmandu Oddessy (36')
Dir. Sekher Kharel (in person)
Story of a professor (Abhi Subedi)'s jouney from a village to the city.
12:30 Team Nepal (37')
Dir. Girish Giri (in person)
A local Birgunj football team crosses border to play a match.
1:30 Mukundo (105')
Dir. Tsiring Rhitar Sherpa
(Fiction) Relationship between a 'Mata' and her patience
3:30 Sa Karnali through Dolpa (52')
Dir. Kiran Krishna Shrestha (in person)
Around Dolpa following a music video crew.
4:45 The living of Jogimara (38')
Dir. Mohan Mainali (in person)
Story of the family of 17 – who were mistaken as Maoists and killed while working at a airport site in Kalikot.
5:45 We Corner People (52')
Dir. Kesang Tseten (in person)
Story of a Suspension bridge in Rasuwa.
   
Open Air Screening
7:00 Numafung (108')
Dir. Nabin Subba (in person)
(fiction)
Story of a girl and her social struggle 
 
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