NAIFF Festival Lineup 2025

Opening Film

Shambhala

Genre: Drama
Country: Nepal
Runtime: 150 Min
Director: Min Bahadur Bham
Language(s): Nepali, Tibetan
Subtitles: English

Closing Film

Pooja, Sir

Genre: Crime Drama
Country: Nepal
Runtime: 155 Min
Director: Deepak Rauniyar
Language(s): Nepali
Subtitles: English

US Premiere

The World’s Happiest Man (Bhuthan)

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country:  Nepal
Runtime: 101 min
Director:  Binod Paudel
Language(s): Nepali
Subtitles: English

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War Tails

Genre: Documentary 
Country:  USA
Runtime: 54 min
Director: Dir.  Olha Byrledianu
Language(s): Ukrainian
Subtitles: English

Lithium Rising

Genre: Documentary 
Country:  US
Runtime: 60 min
Director: Dir.  Samuel George
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English

Feature

Cartapesta: Carnival Of Fano – The Movie 

Genre: Documentary, Other
Country:  Italy
Runtime: 89 min
Director: Dir. Andrea Lodovichetti
Language(s): Italian
Subtitles: English

Ch’ul Be, Sacred Path

Genre: Documentary 
Country:  Mexico
Runtime: 70 min
Director: Dir. Humberto Gómez Pérez
Language(s): Spanish
Subtitles: English

Devi

Genre: Documentary 
Country:  Nepal
Runtime: 80 min
Director: Dir.  Subina Shrestha
Language(s): Nepali
Subtitles: English

Ghamar Taj

Genre: Documentary
Country:  Iran
Runtime: 61 min
Director: Dir. Hadi Zarei, Mehdi Zarei
Language(s): Persian
Subtitles: English

Snow Leopard Sisters

Genre: Documentary, Other
Country: Nepal/UK
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Dir. Ben Ayers, Sonam Choekyi Lama, Andrew Lynch
Language(s): Nepali, English
Subtitles: English

We are Inside

Genre: Documentary
Country: Denmark, Lebanon, Qatar
Runtime: 180 min
Director: Dir. Farah Kassem
Language(s): Arabic
Subtitles: English

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A Christmas Bonus

Genre: Drama 
Country:  USA
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Dir. Chaka Balamani
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English

Dear Pra

Genre: Drama, Short
Country:  USA
Runtime: 15 min
Director: Dir. Nitin S Adsul
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English

The Cousin

Genre: Drama, Short 
Country:  USA
Runtime: 12 min
Director: Dir. Amitabh Joshi
Language(s): English, Nepali
Subtitles: English

The Last Wild Herd

Genre: Documentary 
Country:  USA
Runtime: 13 min
Director: Dir. Aayas Joshi, Anna Connors
Language(s): English
Subtitles: English

Shorts

Circles

Genre: Drama, LGBT, Politik
Country:  Turkey
Runtime: 10 min
Director: Dir. Ferhat Ertan
Language(s): Turkish
Subtitles: English

Clay Bird

Genre: Animation
Country:  Nepal
Runtime: 13 min
Director: Dir. Kiran Bhakta Joshi
Language(s): Nepali
Subtitles: English

Coop

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family 
Country:  Saudi Arabia
Runtime: 12 min
Director: Dir. ‌Mujtaba Zaki Alhejji
Language(s): Arabic
Subtitles: English

Cow Killer

Genre: 
Country: Iran
Runtime: 25 min
Director: Dir. Farhad Mohamadzadeh
Language(s):
Subtitles: English

Left-Handed

Genre: Drama 
Country: Russian Federation 
Runtime: 19 min
Director: Dir. Yuri Vladimirovich Kuzin
Language(s): Russian
Subtitles: English

Maitighar

Genre: Drama
Country:  Nepal
Runtime: 15 min
Director: Dir. Marc Gurung
Language(s): Nepali
Subtitles: English

Moon Belly

Genre: Drama
Country:  Mexico
Runtime: 30 min
Director: Dir. Liliana K’an
Language(s): Other
Subtitles: English

Perfect Wall

Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea 
Runtime: 13 min
Director: Dir. Sea-Hoon Jeon
Language(s): Korean
Subtitles: English

Rotten Blood

Genre: Experimental
Country:  Nepal
Runtime: 17 min
Director: Dir. ‌Durga Bahadur Karki (Sayad)
Language(s): Nepali
Subtitles: English

More films are still being added. Please check back soon. For the complete list, visit: https://nafilmsociety.org/naiff-2025-announces-official-film-selection/