A few words about
NHRIFF 2018
6th Nepal Human Rights International Film festival 2018:
Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival (NHRIFF) has established as a forum for advocating human rights via films. The voices of the people and the issues of human rights are not sufficiently raised in the film in Nepal. Film festival is not targeted in the issues of human rights. So, the project, ‘Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival’ will focus on those issues dealt above. Festival will be dedicated to the vulnerable communities who are historically backward in Nepal.
Selected Films...
Even When I Fall
Director: Sky Neal
Co- Director: KATE MCLARNON
Country of Origin: Nepal
Runtime: 89 minutes
Synopsis
Even When I Fall is an intimate, beautiful film that harnesses the visual power of circus to give a unique perspective into the complex world of human trafficking. The film traces the journey of Saraswoti and Sheetal, trafficking survivors, as they confront the families that sold them, seek acceptance within their own country and begin to build a future. They struggle against the odds and without education, but inadvertently these girls were left with a secret weapon by their captors – their breathtaking skills as circus artists. With 11 other young trafficking survivors, Sheetal and Saraswoti form Circus Kathmandu – Nepal’s first and only circus.
Children of the Snow Land
Director: Zara Balfour and Marcus Stephenson
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Runtime: 1 hour 30 min
Country of Filming: Nepal
Film Language: English, Nepali, Tibetan
Children of the Snow land tell the story of a group of children born in the High Himalayas of Nepal – a remote area of great natural beauty but where life is extremely tough. From just four years old, some children are sent by their parents to the capital city, Kathmandu, to a school run by a Buddhist monk in the hope that education will give them a better chance in life. For ten years or more they do not see or speak to their parents, due to the remoteness of their villages.
Now, upon graduation, aged 16, the children are making the trek home: an arduous and lengthy journey across mountains that takes them to the highest inhabited place on the planet; a faraway, off-grid land where the way of life has not changed for thousands of years, and where their parents are waiting to see children brought up in a world of mobile phones, social media and most modern conveniences. And then the earthquake strikes. Children of the Snow Land document their scary, moving, funny and humbling stories.
RUWA
Director: SUJATA GURUNG
Country of Origin: Nepal
Runtime: 4 min 45 seconds
“Ruwa” is the story of a woman who aspires to have children and become a mother. But what seems like a normal aspiration for many women is a dream full of challenges for her.
DUST
Director: Deepak Tolange
Country of Origin: Nepal
Runtime: 50 minutes
Film Type: Documentary, Other
Film Language: Hindi, Nepali
Every year during winter thousands of Nepalese and Indians migrate to various parts of Nepal to work in brick factories. Many of these laborers are children who drop out school, engage in hard labor and never return back to school.
Dust is an attempt to find the perspectives of children working in brick kiln areas in Nepal about their life, work and education.
People of the Forest: Orang Rimba
Director: Isaac Kerlow
Film Type: Documentary
Country of Origin: Singapore
Runtime: 14 min 12 seconds
Country of Filming: Indonesia
The ancestral forests of the nomadic Orang Rimba have vanished. In the short span of three decades oil palm plantations have replaced much of the tropical peatland rain forests in Jambi, Indonesia. The People of the Forest, Orang Rimba in their dialect, have nowhere to go.
Pink Tiffany
Director: Sophie Dia Pegrum
Film Type: Documentary
Country of Origin: Nepal
Runtime: 44 minutes 20 seconds
A young Transgender woman, Meghna Lama, has built a successful business and works as an advocate and activist for the LGBTI community in Nepal. Bravely facing social legitimacy and family acceptance, as well as sharing her experience transforming from son to daughter, her dauntless attitude and spirited laugh become a powerful reminder of not only what it is to be transgender in Nepal, but ultimately, what it is to be human.
MEDITERRANEA
Director: Nicolas Sarkissian
Country of Origin: France
Runtime: 14 min 35 seconds
Marseille, a sunny beach, a young dancer attempts to rescue a castaway. While she calls for help, the stranger disappears mysteriously. Has she dreamt it? The enigmatic presence of this shipwrecked man haunts her day and night, evoking echoes of a Mediterranean tragedy.
Footprints
Director: Sarah Duff
Film Type: Documentary, Short
Country of Origin: South Africa
Runtime: 22 min 57 seconds
After centuries of oppression, the ǂKhomani San, one of the last remaining groups of South Africa’s first people, have won back some of their historic homeland in the Kalahari Desert. Voetspore (Footprints) follows their struggle for cultural survival as they capitalize on ancient knowledge of nature to run a wildlife hunting ranch.
The Sunrise Storyteller
Director: Kasha Sequoia Slavner
Country of Origin: Canada
Runtime: 1 hour 4 min 25 seconds
Film Language: English
The Sunrise Storyteller follows the hero’s journey of teenage filmmaker & social justice advocate, Kasha Sequoia Slavner, as she sets out for six months on her 16th birthday across the world in search of stories of hope and resilience that shine a light on what it means to be a global citizen and how we can all make a difference.
Two Brothers
Director: Rb Singh
Country of Origin: India
Runtime: 20 minutes
Film Type: Short
In telling the story of two brothers trying to safeguard their dignity during the Punjab insurgency, the film evokes the violence and injustice committed by the state against innocent Sikhs.
Six Year Old Fears
Director: Lauren Anders Brown
Country of Filming: Jordan
Runtime: 15 minutes
A short documentary featuring a six year old Syrian girl as she becomes a big sister in a refugee camp that has the best maternal mortality rate in the world.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
Standing Rock Take Me from the River
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
G-Face – The Documentary about Nothing
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
Director: Bafana Monyamane
Runtime: 18:13 minutes.
Country of origin: SOUTH AFRICA
G-Face – The Documentary About Nothing, is a music biography of one Thabo “G-Face” Nthako, a rapper in his early 40’s from a small mining town in South Africa by the name of Kutloanong, still pressuring music success and not finding it, from 1994 G-face has been doing music, we explore why he has not received success or even the recognition his music deserve.
