Nepal Movies

Leading Nepalese film scholar and Tokyo University of Information Sciences professor Ito Toshiaki serves as the first Japanese director and...

An authentic 8mm documentary filmed in 1978, Nepal, Kathmandu captures the rich cultural heritage of Kathmandu and a remarkable trek across the...

Lesbian short film from Nepal

In the quiet village of Bardiya, 24-year-old Chadani Thapa cuts hair for men, a job rarely held by women in her community. Living away from her...

A businessman struggles to fix a deal for his startup while attending a temple ritual, thus ignoring his religious wife and their daughter, who leave...

Home Is Not a Place follows a filmmaker’s search into her own family history after learning that her grandmother was kidnapped and forced into...

An impoverished couple crosses the Himalayas on foot to a more prosperous village, where they are tasked with gathering leaves and chopping wood of...

Angnima Sherpa, the original "Icefall Doctor", has held the most dangerous job on earth on the slopes of Mt. Everest for 30+ years.​ A...

An American photographer, who has lived in Katmandu for many years, accompanies the Bon monk Gelek on his journey to the origin of the kingdom of...

This film is set in a traditional household in Nepal and documents a servant girl, Nani; a married woman, Sarita; and a mother-in-law, Ama. In...

In 2005, Punam Tamang is nine, living in the Nepalese city of Bhaktapur. She lost her mother when she was five years old and since that time she has...

Two sisters from the remote high hills of Jumla navigate the harsh realities of city life, selling vegetables and national flags to make ends meet....

Traveler gets locked inside an empty fortress

In the heart of the Himalayan hills, shamans travel through the intangible. Their souls explore the world of spirits and ancestors to relieve human...

Set in the tradition-bound city of Bhaktapur, within a Newar household, the film follows a 42-year-old mother pursuing bodybuilding while navigating...

A personal film on love, loss, and time. Through fragments of home, old footage, and found sounds, the filmmaker traces his mother’s quiet...

Punte ko Pangro is a story about a child in the countryside of the Kathmandu valley. We follow Punte, a playful boy, who has a toy wheel of his own,...

The filmmaker confronts the popular narrative in Nepal that alcoholism is the leading cause of the indigenous Rai community's perceived backwardness...

Sonam (50) and his estranged son Karma (20) journey to ancestral monasteries in the mountains of Nepal to light butter lamps in memory of Sonam's...

Director Sahara Sharma took inspiration from a poem written by a man about women, and reworked it, giving women the agency they deserve. The film is...