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Frames of War (Yudhha Chitra)

Frames of War (Yudhha Chitra)

Frames of War (Yudhha Chitra)

We Corner People (Hami kunako manche)

Saving Dolma

The Desert Eats Us

We Homes Chaps

This film explores the fragile ground where love and  unlove cohabit, illuminating a rare space where the two are in close proximity but distinct. A unique Scottish Presbyterian home was founded by a missionary at the turn of the century in British India.

The Desert Eats Us

In recent years, fear of being caught in the crossfire between state security forces and Maoist insurgents and a failing economy propelled Nepalis to sell themselves as cheap labour in the Gulf.

Saving Dolma

The film looking at women migrant workers follows the thread of Dolma, sentenced to death for killing a Filipino co-domestic in Kuwait, presenting the multiple responses to this event, the upheaval and fractures of the family, the women’s advocacy group, Nepali society and officialdom. [vimeo id="16048869" width="450" height="400"] It presents a rare glimpse of the women’s situation in the Gulf States extremely sensitive to outside scrutiny of their treatment of foreign workers. It exposes the fundamentally vulnerable condition of ill-educated and ill-prepared women from a poor country making this enormous journey. Buy Online

In Search of the Riyal

Nepal has rapidly become a pipeline of cheap labour for the Gulf in the last two decades. Migration has emptied Nepal’s villages of its young men, its farm fields tended by the elderly and women or left fallow.

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