Film Information
Year: 2022
Duration: 95'
Language: VOSE
Genre: Drama
Synopsis
Radha, a young pregnant woman from a village in Nepal, is married to Basudev, who’s gone missing. To calm her mother-in-law’s anxieties, Radha hires a caricature artist, Sundar, to talk to them in Basudev’s voice. After her mother-in-law dies, Radha receives a letter claiming that Basudev has been found, and she teams up with Sundar and travels to Kathmandu to find him, but discovers instead an intriguing web of lies, deceit and fraud behind his disappearance and of many others.
Director
Subarna Thapa is a Nepali filmmaker based in France for 17 years. He graduated in dramatic arts in Paris and took film initiation course in La Femis in Paris. Thapa was funded by CNC-France for his first short film, Malamee (Funeral) in 2008. Soongava (Dance of the Orchids, 2012) was his first feature length and the first film in Nepal’s cinema history to tackle the theme of a same-sex relationship.