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]]>The 10th edition of the Nepal European Union Film Festival (NEUFF) has kick started on a grand scale.
However, this year the film festival will be virtual on the back of pandemic. The festival will be streamed on the virtual streaming platform Festival Scope.
People can watch the festival for free by creating an account on the platform.
Organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Nepal, the 2021 Nepal-EU Film Festival is being conducted from September 17 to 25, 2021.
The festival will premiere five Nepali films, 11 European films, and 23 films based on environmental conservation and climate change.
The Nepali films premiering on the festival are:
- Aama Khando – Directed by Dhondup Tsering
- Bulbul – Directed by Binod Paudel
- Co-Husband – Directed by Sahayek Shreeman
- Sarita- Tell Me Who I am – Directed by Sergio Basso
- Split Ends – Directed by Rajan Kathet
Besides the movies, the film festival also features many events and interactive sessions. Renowned film directors and artists from Nepal and Europe will take part in the festival.
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]]>Today, the Nepal-America Film Society (NAFS) announced the winners of the NAIFF 2021 that was held virtually from June 18 – 20, 2021, in Maryland.
According to the organizers, the festival featured 30 films from more than 14 various countries.
The Awards Winners of the NAIFF 2021 are:
- Special Jury Mention Award: ‘Mannu: Sprouts of Endurance’ by Ramdas Kadavallur
- Special Jury Mention Award: ‘So what if the Goats Die’ by Sofia Alaoui
- Jury Award for Best in Shorts: ‘Gramercy’ by Pat Heywood and Jamil McGinnis and
- Jury Award for Best in Shorts: ‘Julungo’ by Rajesh Prasad Khatri
- Jury Awards for the Best in Experimental: ‘Spontaneous’ by Lori Felker
- Jury Award for Best in Feature: ‘Mother, I Am Suffocating’ by Lemohang Jeremiah Moses
- Grand Jury Ward: ‘Mother, I Am Suffocating’
The festival has received film submissions from Nepal, America, and South and Southeast Asian countries.
A jury of six female film experts, including Sapna Shakya, Ramyata Limbu, Nina Streich, Rebecca Bustamante, Rita Meher, and Portia Cobbwill, selected the best films for the international film festival.
NAIFF aims to celebrate diverse cultures through the art of cinema. Since 2017, the event has garnered remarkable popularity as an emerging platform for filmmakers with Nepali backgrounds and American filmmakers along with filmmakers from the international diaspora.
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]]>One such Nepali film ‘Dal Bhat Tarkari’ did the same magic!
Director Sudan KC’s flick kept the audience awestruck with outstanding comedy, while speaking about a serious social issue of the country in the background.
We know ‘migration to foreign nations for jobs’ is one major happening trend in Nepali society. Sudan KC picked up the same concept with ‘Nepalis to US’ as the target.
The movie presents Hari Bansha Acharya and Niruta Singh in lead roles as a well-established Nepali family who wish to settle in US by earning more.
While Haribansha enthralled the audience with his unique style of comedy dialogue delivery, Nirtuain wife’s character did her best to the role.
Wilson Bikram Rai and Basundhara Bhusal also did their best performances as comedians in the movie.
Though in comedy genre, the movie did not refrain from speaking about key social elements such as Nepalis inclination to settle in foreign nations, gold smuggling, patriotism, and more.
Rest is all about the must-watch!
Overall, the movie runs for 125 minutes duration with an entertaining screenplay, decent performances, exciting music, enthralling comedy and enthusing concept.
No doubt! Dal Bhat Tarkari is one film that Nepalis will remember forever!
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The film was a big hit with NPR 190 million in collections. It has grown in popularity majorly for its critique portrayal of Nepali education sector and could successfully grab the attention of around 1.2 million audience.
Considering its significance to the topic, the film was screened at the educational conference that saw educationists and teachers from the entire South Asian region.
The screening began with an introductory brief by Chhakka Panja 3 Director Deepa Shree Niraula, who felt the film was successful for its social critique on Nepal’s education system in a fun way.
Nepali Educationist Dhananjaya Acharya Nepal lauded the film saying, it “portrays a realistic picture of Nepal’s education system,” and appreciated it for raising key issues of Nepali education sector that even Nepali media missed out over time.
“Ground reality of the education system, not just of Nepal but of India as well, and in fact, the situation is same in all of South Asia. It’s an excellent film and also a useful one. It’s bound to take a good market,” said Indian educationist Sharad Chandra Behar.
Behar went a step ahead and called on the Chhakka Panja 3 team to dub that in Hindi and bring it to Indian cinema as well.
“Dharam karam bhi ho gaya, aur daam bhi aagaya” (meaning we addressed a social problem and we also made money), said Deepak Raj Giri, actor and one of the producers of Chhakka Panja 3. This dialogue part of the film created huge laughter among the audience!
The event also saw from serious critiques for the movie, where some of the audience termed it not serious and dramatic in presenting the solution to the problems raised.
“While the film shows a drastic improvement in the education standards of the school [around which the film revolves], it doesn’t show how it achieved the feat,” adds Behar.
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]]>Out of three initial submissions, Shivam Adhikari’s Nepali historical drama Panchayat secured its place as Nepal’s nomination at the international film festival– The Oscars.
Samten Bhutia’s war-drama Tandro and My Love Promise for Kathmandu were the other two proposed initially.
As a story revolving around or surrounding the mid ‘30s background, Panchayat features the story of the head of a village panchayat, who is proven guilty of the crime he commits.
“A majority of mainstream cinemas released commercially do not match the level of storytelling and technical finesse that we seek. We’ve selected Panchayat this year. It is definitely better than the other two submissions,” Chiranjivi Guragain, Secretary of the Foreign Language Oscars Selection Committee, said in a statement.
Chiranjivi raised a concern that only three films were announced for Oscars nominations despite the notice being public months prior to the selection process.
“Most of the producers are well aware that their films won’t make the final cut. But we have to choose one anyway,” Chiranjivi adds.
However, Chiranjivi is doubtful on whether Panchayat, though better than submissions, would feature in the top five in the competition.
He was little hopeful that the movie would at least make it through the second round.
To make it more effective, the producers of the move are currently working on technical improvements and sound design for the movie before submitting it to the competition.
Meanwhile, Director of the movie is confident about his product.
“Panchayat might be a story from Nepal, but the emotions it invokes are universal. I am sure that the judges will be moved by the story. And if that happens, we might just make history,” says Adhikari.
Sharing his thoughts about the movie, he went on to say that “the collective conscience of that period was seldom explored in cinema and would make a good story.”
Though there are many movies that performed well at the Nepali Box Office, Panchayat grabbed the rare opportunity of getting featured in Oscars.
Let’s hope Panchayat will perform its best to take the Nepali cinema and its reputation to the next stage at the international level through Oscars 2019. All the best Nepal!
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]]>The movie unit of ‘Maitighar’, the first Nepali film under a private banner, received a special honor in a recently-held film festival.
The national capital Kathmandu, on Monday, witnessed a film festival titled ‘LG Cine Circle Award-2074’.
Nepal Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun, who graced the event as its chief guest, honored various film technicians with awards in their respective categories.
On account of the Nepali film industry’s 51 years of completion, the event recalled first Nepali film ‘Maitighar’ and presented special honor to the film unit. Film stars CP Mainali and Mala Sinha were also present at the event.
On the occasion, ‘Jatra’ film grabbed awards under the Best Movie of the Year, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay categories.
The event also honored senior film technicians. The chief guest presented ‘Life Time Achievement Award’, along with Rs 51,000 cash prize, to the legendary Fight Director NB Maharjan.
The event was held at Army Officers Club in Kathmandu.
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