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KATHMANDU INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
Screening list
7-11 December, 2006

Tickets (Rs 30 per screening) are available at Saraswati Book Centre, Hariharbhawan (5521599/5528017); Mandala Book Point, Kantipath (4245570/4227711); Suwal Music and Video, Lazimpat (4421522); Jai Nepal Cinema Hall, Hattisar, Himal Association, Patan Dhoka (5542544)

Tickets are available from the 6th Dec 2004.

Gurukul
Old Baneshwor

Nepal Tourist Service Centre
Exhibition Road

Russian Cultural Centre
Kamal Pokhari


8 December, Friday

3:00 pm
Dancing Kathmandu (43')
Nepal, Czech Republic, 2006, Culture
dir – Sangita Shresthova
Re-connecting with Nepal through dance

5:00 pm
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (87')
UK, 2006, Culture/Conflict
dir - Ben Hopkins
A Central Asian tribe chooses exile over communism

6.45 pm
Invisible Children: Rough Cut (55')
USA, 2006, Conflict
dir - Jason Russell
Abduction and child soldiers in Uganda

9 December, Saturday

2:00 pm
China Blue (87')
USA, 2005, Globalisation
dir - Micha Peled
Inside a blue jeans factory

3:45 pm
The Women’s Kingdom (21')
USA, 2005, Culture
dir - Xiaoli Zhou
Women rule in Moscuo, China

 

Den Sidste Aere ‘The Last Honours’ (29')
Denmark, 2006, Culture
dir - Birgitte Glavind Sperber
A Pakistani Kalash elder passes away

5:00 pm
Himalayan Dreams (28')
Maldives, 2006, Adventure/Culture
dir - Ahmed Shafeeu & Ali Rasheed
Maldivian longing for Himalayan heights

 

Solo un Cargador ‘Porter’ (20')
Peru, 2003, Lifestyle/Culture
dir - Juan Alejandro Ramirez
A Peruvian porter thinks aloud

10 December, Sunday

 

2:00 pm
View from a Grain of Sand (82')
USA, 2006, Conflict/Culture
dir - Meena Nanji
Women of Afghanistan speak on conflict

3:45 pm
I sona su la torns ‘They are Playing Over the Towers’ (9')
Italy, 2004, Music/Culture
dir - Detomas Margherita
The Dolomites are alive with music

Waiting (39')
India, 2005, Conflict
dir - Atul Gupta & Shabnam Ara
Missing men and 'half widows' in Kashmir.

5:00 pm
New Samaritans (52')
Israel, 2006, Religion/Culture
dir - Alexander Shabataev, Sergey Grankin & Efim Kuchuk
Foreign brides 'refresh' the nation's blood.

 

6:00 pm
Words of My Perfect Teacher (103')
Canada, 2005, Lifestyle/Culture
dir - Lesley Ann Patten
Dzongsar Khyentse Norbu is not your typical teacher

11 December, Monday

 

2:00 pm
Beyond the Call (82')
USA, 2006, Conflict/Adventure
dir - Adrian Belic
US war veterans to the rescue

 

3:30 pm
Malenkaya Katerina ‘Tiny Katerina’ (24')
Russia, 2004, Ethnography
dir - Ivan Golovnev
A girl grows up in Siberia

The Last Race (23')
Nepal, 2005, Culture
dir - Alex Gabbay & Subina Shrestha
A touching tale of friendship

 

4:45 pm
Anupa Pafadnam ‘Go Pafadnam’ (57')
Spain, 2003, Mountain Biking/Culture
dir - Lluis Jene & Oriol Gispert
Burkina Faso's top cyclist trains in Spain

 

6:00 pm
Chulo, Choli ra Banduk ‘A Stove, a Blouse and a Gun’ (22')
Nepal, 2006, Conflict
dir - Subina Shrestha
A glimpse of women in Nepal's Maoist Party

 

Closing of Kimff 2006

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Ramyata Limbu
Festival Director
Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival
Patan Dhoka, P.O. Box 166, Lalitpur
Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel.: 977-1-5542544, Fax: 977-1-5541196
E-mail: kimff@himalassociation.org
www.himalassociation.org/kimff
 

 
 
 
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