Two Nepali films- Four Nights and The Iron Digger—have won the Best Fiction and the Best Non-fiction awards at the 10th edition of the Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival.
Four Nights of Deepak Rauniya and The Iron Digger of Anil Budha Magar won the award under Nepali film category. The four-day film festival that began on December 18 at the Nepal Tourism Board concluded on Wednesday awarding the films in various categories.
Shepherds of the Earth by Finland’s filmmakers Liris Harma won the award under the Best non- fiction category in the international genera while The Instinct by Bangladeshi filmmaker Juboraj Shamim received the best fiction in the same category.
Likewise, Pinki Sris Rana’s Hajur, Through the Singing Villages of Samrat Khanal, Death Unexplained of Sunil Neupane, Heza, a Russian film by Derya Deniz, The Criminals by Serhat Kaaraasian and Aysha e by Cengij Akaygun won the Special Mention Award in the festival.
The film Mizuko made by Kira Dane and Katelyan Rebelo from the USA won the Jury Special Mention Award. The film festival is organised by the Human Rights Film Centre. The festival organised with the slogan of ‘Climate Change and Environmental Justice’ had begun with the premiere of Shanta Nepali’s film ‘Climbing Temperatures on Top of the World’.
In the festival, 64 films from 25 countries, including Nepal were screened, said the organiser.
“Feature films, documentaries, and animations, collected through open applications from around the world were screened at the festival,” informed the organiser. Director Abinash Bikram Shah from Nepal, writer and director Anirban Bhattacharya from India, civil rights campaigner and festival director Su-Lee Dilbar from Korea and writer and director Oshra Schwartz Rem from Israel were the judges of the festival. Meanwhile, an 8-minute-long short film The Return of Ghariyal by Indira Aryal of The Rising Nepal was also screened at the festival.
Source : TRN,
