10th Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF)

10th Kathmandu international Mountain film Festival 2012

Event date: December 7, 2012 to December 11, 2012
Event Location/Venue: Rastriya Sabha Griha (City Hall) and Nepal Tourism Board's Auditorium, Exhibition Road, Kathmandu.
Ticket Price: Rs. 50 per screening/ Rs. 25 for students. Tickets will be available at venue. 
Organised By: Himal Association

The event will start with Nepal Premier of Kesang Tseten's latest documentary "Who will be a Gurkha" (1:00 pm  Friday 7th december). The documentary features the rigorous selection process of less than 200 youths from more than 10,000 applicants into the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas. It dwells on the social and historic aspects of Gurkha recruitment. The documentary was recently screened at the 24th International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam. And it will also premier Subarna Thapa's SOONGAVA - dance of the orchids(3:00 pm Tuesday 11 December) & Eric Valli's
"Himalayan Gold Rush".Valli is the same person who made the movie "Caravan" in 1999. Screening time: 11 December, Tuesday, 5:30 pm (City Hall)

During the 5 days of ths film festival, 61 films representing 32 different countries will be showcased. The top ten films from the competition titled "EDUCATING NEPAL - Short Film Competition" will also be screened during the festival.

Some additional events included in this film festival are:

• Book and photo exhibition
• 3 talk programs
• Quiz and Film Making Workshop.

Please find the list of all the 61 movies that are going to be screened in this film festival below:

S.N.	Title of Film	Director	Length	Year	Country of Production
	INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
1	Among B-Boys	Christopher Woon	55'40"	2011	USA
2	An Epic Tale	James Walsh, Kat Millar	78'	2012	South Africa
3	Art of Freedom	Marek Kosowicz and Wojciech Sota	70'	2011	Poland
4	Bachelor Mountain	Yu Guangyi	95'	2011	China
5	Co Si Wydarzyo Na Wyspie Pam (What happened on Pam Island)	Eliza Kubarska	30'	2010	Poland
6	Cold	Anson Fogel	19'	2011	USA
7	Freundschaft Auf Zeit (Friendship with Limits)	August Pflugfelder	52'	2012	Pakistan/ Austria/ Germany
8	La Nuit Nomads (Nomadic Nights)	Marianne Chaud	90'	2012	France
9	On a Marche Sous Le Pole (Deep Sea Under the pole)	Thierry Robert and Ghislain Bardout	52'	2010	France
10	Out Living It	Michael Brown	34'44"	2012	USA
11	Qui A Tue Natacha? (Who Killed Natacha?)	Mylène Sauloy	64'	2011	France
12	Snohulemannen (The Snow Cave Man)	Fridtjof Kjaereng	72'	2010	Norway
13	The Andes Adventure	Bjarne Salen	22'	2012	Chile
14	The Art of Flight	Curt Morgan	80'	2011	Chile/ USA/ Canada
15	The Horsemen of Semonkong	Sharon Farr	48'	2011	South Africa & Lesotho
16	Vietnamese Girl	Tara Milutis	86'	2011	USA/Vietnam
17	Waking the Green Tiger, A Green Movement Rises in China	Gary Marcuse	78'	2011	Canada/ China
18	Who Will Be A Gurkha	Kesang Tseten	75'	2012	Nepal
	NON COMPETITIVE
19	1st Afghan Ski Challenge	Hans-Urs Bachmann	17'	2011	Switzerland/ Afghanistan
20	A L'ecole Des Bambous (Bamboo Schools)	Jean Pierre Devorsine	52'	2011	France
21	5 Grad Plus-Wie Das Klima Unsere Welt Verandert (Alpine Meltdown)	Waltraud Paschinger	50'	2011	Austria
22	Bahadur The Accidental Brave	Aditya Seth	54'	2011	India
23	Bon: Mustang to Menri	Tad Fettig	52'	2011	India/Nepal
24	Encordades (Roped Up)	Gerard Montero	52'	2011	Spain
25	Ertefae Omid (High Hopes)	Keivan Majidi	26'	2011	Iran
26	Gu Cheng (Lament of Yumen)	Huaqing Jin and Wengyuxiang	27'	2012	China
27	Gypaetus Helveticus	Marcel Berelli	6'45"	2011	Switzerland
28	Janadhar (Grassroots)	Jade Ajani and David Meek	93'	2012	US/India
29	Khyi rgan (Old Dog)	Pema Tseden	88'	2011	China
30	Living Like a Common Man	Sanderien Verstappen, Mario Rutten and Isabelle Makay	65'	2011	Netherlands/Belgium
31	Marion Stoddart: The Work of 1000	Susan Edwards and Dorie Clark	30'	2010	USA
32	Mother India	Raffaele Brunetti	61'	2011	Italy
33	Oci in Usesa Boga- Videonadzor Sudana (Eyes and Ears of God- Video Surveillance of Sudan	Tomo Kriznar and Maja Weiss	95'	2012	Slovenia
34	Outside the Box	Stafanie Brockhaus	16'	2011	Germany
35	Ride of Passage			2012	Denmark
36	Rizwan (Guardian of Paradise)	Deepti Khurana	16'	2012	India
37	Saluti da Sar Planina (Greetings from the Sar Mountain)	Erik Fusco	15'	2012	Netherlands
38	Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto	Johan Oettinger	7'42"	2012	Denmark
39	Slug Invasion		8'	2012	Denmark
40	Tales From A Place Less Traveled: Azamgarh	Shakeb Ahmed	52'	2012	India
41	The Sound of One Leg Dancing	Dilman Dila	30'	2011	Nepal/ Uganda
42	The Story of Animation		8'	2012	Denmark
43	Un Dios Que Ya No Ampara (A God that no Longer Shelters)	Gaizka Urresti	20'	2010	Spain
44	We Are in the Field	Gabriel Diamond	27'30"	2012	USA
	SPECIAL SCREENING (NEPAL PREMIERE)
45	SOONGAVA- dance of the orchids	Subarna Thapa	85'	2012	Nepal/France
	SPECIAL SCREENING
46	Himalayan Gold Rush	Eric Valli	52'	2011	France
	NEPAL PANORAMA
47	Extinct	Aalok Ghimire	9'28"	2012	Nepal
48	Hari	Asim Chitrakar	11'46"	2012	Nepal
49	Kadamandu	Ramesh Khadka	30'	2012	Nepal
50	Extinction of Pasture	Lajim Budha and Rajendra Budha Magar	17'30"	2012	Nepal
51	Yomari Ya Bakhan (The Story of Yomari)	Rajni Shrestha & Alok Tuladhar	18'	2011	Nepal
	NEPAL PANORAMA (NOT IN COMPETITION)
52	Bansuli	Min Bhaam	15'	2011	Nepal
53	Khatti Suun	Laalu Bohara and Meena Pariyar	22'		Nepal
54	Until When?	Sunita Nepali, Bindu BK, Bina BK	35'	2012	Nepal
	MENTAL NORD
55	45 CM	Annette K. Olesen and Charlotte Sieling	23'	2007	Denmark
56	De Beste Gar Forst (United We Stand)	Hans Petter Moland	10'	2002	Norway
57	Out of Place	Ellen- Astri Lundby	1'	2001	Norway
58	Perkele	Arto Tuohimaa	18'	2004	Finland
59	Scen NR: 6882 Ur Mitt Liv	Ruben Ostlund	9'	2005	Sweden
60	Smafuglar (2 Birds)	Runar Runarsson	15'	2008	Iceland
61	Sportstugan (The Lodge)	Gunilla Heilborn and Marten Nilsson	13'	2005	Sweden

References:

http://www.facebook.com/kimff