Kathmandu, June 9
The fourth Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival will begin in Lalitpur from Friday. The three-day event will be held at Lalitpur-based Nepal Administrative Staff College from June 10 till 12, Human Rights Film Centre, the organiser, said in a press release.
Thirty-two films from 13 countries, including Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Australia and the USA, will be exhibited in the festival, the organisers said at a press conference in Kathmandu.
The festival’s director Manoj Pandit said Nepali film Chaya will be released during the event. The festival will begin with the screening of Oscar-winning Pakistani film ‘A Girl in the River’. Five Nepali films and 25 foreign films will contest for the best movie award, which will be decided by a jury of Nepali Director Tsering Rhitar Sherpa, Israeli Director Dan Woolman and Bangladeshi Director Shahnaz Kakeli, according to Director Pandav Khatri Poudel Chhetri.
