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2006
Audience Awards
Riding Solo
To The Top Of The World
India, 2005
by Gaurav Jani won the Audience Award
Riding Solo To
The Top Of The World is the unique experience
of a lonesome traveller, who rides his motorcycle
all the way from Mumbai to one of the remotest
places in the World, the Changthang Plateau, in
Ladakh, bordering China. As a one-man film unit,
he astonishes you, filming the landscape he passes
by and the people he interacts with, capturing
moments of beauty, pain, love, hardship, self
doubt and spiritual triumphs. As a city slicker,
his interaction with the nomads of the region,
the Chang pas, who live at the highest altitude
used by mankind in the world, teaches him a new
perspective on life, as does the religious fervor
he encounters.
Best
Nepali Documentary
Hami
kunako maanche
We corner people
Nepal, 2006
by Kesang Tseten
A remote Tamang village in Rasuwa District is
getting a trail bridge that will make life easier
and will placate fear. A river straddling the
village swept away a young bride when it inexplicably
swelled. The event haunts the villagers who call
themselves a 'corner' people. No settlement lies
beyond these high hills, there is no electricity,
not a single shop, and a 3-room school that goes
up to class 3. The film depicts a condition of
grinding poverty, though of no lesser complexity,
that will astonish and move us in the centre.
For more information,
please contact:
KIMFF
Himal Association
Patan Dhoka, PO Box 166, Lalitpur, Nepal
Phone: +977-1-5542544/5548142, Fax: +977-1-5541196
Email: kimff@himalassociation.org
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