Director: Shankar Ghimire
🗓️ 1:00 PM · Sunday, September 7, 2025
⏱️ 2 hr 34 minOverview
Filmed in Maryland, Tel Visa follows a Nepali family navigating cultural clashes in the U.S. and the pervasive influence of social media. As the family confronts unfamiliar norms, questions arise: Are cultural differences criminal? What defines “normal”? Family unity is tested as their survival becomes uncertain.
A Road to a Village
Director: Nabin Subba
🗓️ 7:00 PM · Sunday, September 14, 2025
⏱️ 1 hr 46 min
Overview
This moving, insightful drama from director Nabin Subba delves deep into the dreams and struggles of a rural Nepali family when a road connects their once-remote village to the modern world — and introduces them to novelties both tantalizing and perilous.
Between the Mountain and the Sky
Director: Jeremy Power Regimbal
🗓️ 7:00 PM · Wednesday, September 17, 2025
⏱️ 1 hr 32 min
Overview
In 2005 after graduating high school, Maggie Doyne embarked on a gap year, where she met Tope, a now grown Nepalese orphan, caring for orphaned children.
United in purpose, Maggie and Tope pooled resources to establish a children’s home, women’s empowerment program, and school in Nepal. Years later, their relentless efforts led to being honored as the 2015 CNN HERO OF THE YEAR. But days after the award ceremony, Maggie, by then guardian to over fifty Nepalese children, faced the unthinkable, plunging the family into disbelief and despair.
Pooja, Sir
Director: Deepak Rauniyar
🗓️ 1:00 PM · Saturday, September 20, 2025
⏱️ 1 hr 58 min
Overview
When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. However, upon her arrival, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, compelling her to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman. By putting aside systemic discrimination and pushing through everyday misogyny, the women manage to solve the case—but at what personal cost? Inspired by real events which took place in Southern Nepal during the 2015 race protests.
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