Event

Women of Nepal

Chaukaith ("Threshold") (Deepak Rauniyar & Asha Magarati, Nepal, 2008, 31min, Nepali)

Chaukaith is an encounter between two young women, a housewife and a single, divorced mother working as a census officer. All the acting is improvised, with no scripted dialogue.

Chaukaith portraits contemporary features of Nepalese society and it also raises questions about barriers among different people and societies, but in a more intimate and domestic context - in which a woman searches for her identity, a life outside her own threshold.

SWASNIMANCHHE : A Married Woman (Asha Magarati, 30min, Nepali)

Swasnimanchhe is dramatic comedy based on lives of 3 wives of contemporary Nepal, and reflects how the relationships are changing here.

1. Mamata Gurung, a schoolteacher, is married with a doctor. 2.Radhika Ghising, wife of an Indian Army. 3.Kavita Biswakarma, a sex worker.

Girlworld Project (Amy Benson , US, 2010, 20min, work-in-progress, Nepali/English)

GirlWorld Project is made up of intimate, in-depth portraits of three Nepali girls struggling to go to and stay in school. Their stories will be told in three 90-minute films spanning a five-year period.

In the first film, we will introduce the main characters, watch them as they contend with major challenges as well as get the audience hooked on the girls and their stories. Why? Because the effect of educating girls is so immediate that in this scope of time and coverage we will be able to track real, dramatic improvements in these girls' lives.

Compared to their noneducated peers, they will be getting married older, having fewer children. Their mothers will gain confidence and independence and their fathers responsibility. Their families' standard of living will rise; their homes will improve. Not statisticallyliterally, visibly.