Kipalaya Production

02/06/2024

Join Q&A session with the filmmaker of 'Split Ends', Rajan Kathet.

The film is currently being screened online till 7th June.

Q&A session with the filmmaker Rajan Kathet will take place on 7th June (FRIDAY)
Time: 6 pm IST, 6:15 pm NPT, 5:30 pm PKT

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Director’s bio:
Rajan Kathet is a filmmaker based in Kathmandu working in both fiction and documentary films. Rajan's first feature documentary, "No Winter Holidays," premiered in the International First Feature Competition section of Sheffield DocFest 2023 and is the winner of the NATIVA Award at Alternativa Film Awards 2023 in Kazakhstan. His short fiction work, "Bare Trees In The Mist (2019)," was screened at several international film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival 2019, Tampere Film Festival, HKIFF, Encounters Film Festival, Dharamshala IFF, and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia.

Rajan collaborates with national and international filmmakers through his production company, Salpa Films. He has worked on projects such as the Taiwanese feature documentary “After The Snowmelt” by Yi-Shan Lo, which premiered at Visions du Réel 2024, and the TV documentaries "In the Land of Machines" by Heo Chul-nyung (South Korea), "Home Street Home" by Alan Lau for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), and "A Himalayan Endgame" by Deepak Chaturvedi (India), all of which are in post-production.

Rajan is also engaged in film education and mentors young filmmakers through his involvement in local film schools and filmmaking workshops. He regularly contributes to the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival DocLab.

28/05/2024

Join us for a screening of the film ‘Split Ends’ directed by Rajan Kathet (Streaming dates: 1-7 JUNE, 2024) followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker Rajan Kathet on 7 JUNE 2024 (FRIDAY) at 6 pm IST, 6:15 pm NPT, 5:30 pm PKT.

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27/05/2024

We are excited to introduce ‘Split Ends’ directed by Rajan Kathet as a part of , our monthly online documentary screening series featuring films from the Southasian region in collaboration with Himal Southasian .

From 1-7 JUNE, 2024, join us for the screening of ‘Split Ends’ and a Q&A session with the directors Rajan Kathet.

Streaming dates: 1-7 JUNE, 2024
Q & A session: 7 JUNE 2024 (FRIDAY)
Time: 6 pm IST, 6:15 pm NPT, 5:30 pm PKT

Synopsis: A barbershop becomes a place of refuge for Nepali migrants who travel to Portugal in search of the European dream.

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28/04/2024

Join us for a special screening of the film ‘Lyari Notes’ directed by Miriam Chandy Menacherry and Maheen Zia (Streaming dates: May 1 to May 6, 2024) followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers (May 6 at 6 pm IST (5:30 PM PST)).

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27/04/2024

We are excited to introduce ‘Lyari Notes’ directed by Miriam Chandy Menacherry and Maheen Zia as a part of , our monthly online documentary screening series featuring films from the Southasian region in collaboration with Himal Southasian.

From May 1 to May 6, 2024, join us for the screening of ‘Lyari Notes’ and a Q&A session with the directors Miriam Chandy Menacherry and Maheen Zia.

Streaming dates: May 1 to May 6, 2024
Q & A session: May 6 at 6 pm IST (5:30 PM PST)

Synopsis: Lyari Notes is a coming of age film that unfolds during a dramatic timespan 2012-2015 in Pakistan. The exuberance of the general elections which saw an elected government come to power followed by subsequent extremist attacks … These events are documented and interpreted through the eyes of children growing up in Lyari.

Lyari Notes is an intimate journey of four best friends as they learn to express themselves through music. Throughout the film we see the girls transform as they learn to express themselves overcoming personal tragedy and deep rooted fears and family opposition. Amidst violence and nation wide curfews because of extremist attacks, the girls travel to their classes at music school as they prepare for a grand show.

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26/03/2024

We are excited to present a screening of 'We Have Not Come Here To Die' directed by Deepa Dhanraj as a part of , our monthly online documentary screening series featuring films from the Southasian region in collaboration with Himal Southasian.

From 1-8 April 2024, join us for the screening of ‘We Have Not Come Here To Die’ and a Q&A session with the director Deepa Dhanraj.

Streaming dates: 1-8 April 2024
Q & A session: 8 April 2024
6PM IST | 6:15PM NST | 6:30PM BST | 5:30 PM PST

Synopsis: On 17 January 2016, PhD research scholar and Dalit activist Rohith Vemula committed su***de, unable to bear persecution from a partisan university administration and caste supremacists. His su***de note, which argued against the “value of a man being reduced to his immediate identity” galvanised student politics in India. Over the following year thousands of students all over broke the silence around their experiences of caste discrimination in educational institutions and have started a powerful anti-caste movement. The film tracks this movement that is changing the conversation on caste in India.

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01/03/2024

Watch the film ‘Come Over for a Drink, Kanchi (अरक चाना बानाओ, सीम्मा)’ directed by Sikuma Rhiannon Rai !

Screening from 1-6 March 2024

Q&A session: 6 March
Q&A time: 7PM IST | 7:15PM NST | 7:30PM BST | 6:30 PM PST

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Director’s bio:
Sikuma Rhiannon Rai is a multimedia storyteller based in Lalitpur, Nepal and New York, USA. She discovered her storytelling journey in 2017 through journalism while working at the weekly Nepali Times as a multimedia reporter and later as the online video reporter and team leader at the national daily The Kathmandu Post. In 2020, she solo-produced her short documentary "Come Over for a Drink, Kanchhi" which got nominated at the One World Media Awards 2021 and was discussed at the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2021, Sikuma changed gears to expand her creative endeavor and worked as a costume designer in a feature film "A Road to a Village".
​As of April 2023, Sikuma is a Fulbright grantee and a student at Hunter College, CUNY, New York enrolled in the MFA Integrated Media Arts program. The plan is to graduate by 2025.

27/02/2024

A reminder to sign up for the film ‘Come Over for a Drink, Kanchi (अरक चाना बानाओ, सीम्मा)’ directed by Sikuma Sikuma Rhiannon Rai .

Streaming dates: 1-6 March 2024

Q&A session with the filmmaker: 6 March
Q&A time: 7PM IST | 7:15PM NST | 7:30PM BST | 6:30 PM PST

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26/02/2024

Do not miss the film ‘Come Over for a Drink, Kanchi (अरक चाना बानाओ, सीम्मा)’ directed by Sikuma Rhiannon Rai !

Streaming dates: 1-6 March 2024

Q & A session with the filmmaker: 6 March
Q&A time: 7PM IST | 7:15PM NST | 7:30PM BST | 6:30 PM PST

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26/02/2024

Join us for a special screening of the film ‘Come Over for a Drink, Kanchi (अरक चाना बानाओ, सीम्मा)’ (Streaming dates: 1-6 March 2024) followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker Sikuma Rhiannon Rai (6 March, 2024).

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21/02/2024

19/02/2024

19/02/2024

The School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, invites you to Digital Disruptions 2024, a film festival celebrating the innovative use of new media technologies and collaborative film practices.

With the widespread proliferation of smartphones, webcams, and digital devices, our everyday lives are being documented and represented in novel and intimate ways. These powerful tools for self-expression engage users from diverse age groups, genders, and geographies and reshape the modes of distribution through social media platforms. Commonly used in artistic collaborations and community-based participatory practices, smartphones have emerged as accessible and unobtrusive on-the-ground equipment that help amplify unheard voices and disrupt conventional notions of form and storytelling.

For the first edition of this festival, filmmakers, artist collectives, students, and community facilitators working with smartphones and new digital devices are invited to submit their entries. Submissions spanning various categories, including documentaries, fiction, music videos, and experimental works crafted by a community or in close collaboration and solidarity with them, are welcomed.

Digital Disruptions Film Festival will be held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences campus in Mumbai on 27th-28th March 2024.

The submission portal is open till the 25th of February, 2024

Submission Form: https://forms.gle/eEX9dUStvAX5wD1g9
For more information, visit: https://digitaldisruptions2024.wordpress.com/
For queries, email at: [email protected]

08/01/2024

विश्व बजारमा उपस्थिति एवं पहुँचका हिसाबले सन् २०२३ नेपाली फिल्मका लागि सफल वर्ष रह्यो । संख्यात्मक र गुणस्तर दु....

30/12/2023

Watch the film 'A Walnut Tree' directed by Ammar Aziz !

Streaming dates: 5 - 8 January, 2024

Q & A session with the filmmaker: 8 January
6:00 pm India, Sri Lanka
6:15 pm Nepal
6:30 pm Bangladesh
5:30 pm Pakistan

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Director's bio:
Ammar Aziz is a poet, writer and award winning filmmaker from Lahore/Pakistan.
His poetry has appeared or will be forthcoming in several anthologies, including Greening the Earth, The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry and Other Ballads: feminist poems by male and non-binary allies. His work has been published in several leading literary journals. As a filmmaker, he has screened his feature-length non-fiction films at a host of leading film festivals, and has won numerous prestigious awards including the FIPRESCI prize. Aziz has also served as a main jury member for the Moscow International Documentary Film Festival and IDFA’s Global Justice Award.
Ammar Aziz

27/12/2023

A reminder to sign up for the film 'A Walnut Tree' directed by Ammar Aziz !

Streaming dates: 5 - 8 January, 2024

Q & A session with the filmmaker: 8 January
6:00 pm India, Sri Lanka
6:15 pm Nepal
6:30 pm Bangladesh
5:30 pm Pakistan

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26/12/2023

Do not miss the film 'A Walnut Tree' directed by Ammar Aziz !

Streaming dates: 5 - 8 January, 2024

Q & A session with the filmmaker: 8 January
6:00 pm India, Sri Lanka
6:15 pm Nepal
6:30 pm Bangladesh
5:30 pm Pakistan

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24/12/2023

Join us for a special screening of the film 'A Walnut Tree' (Streaming dates: 5 - 8 January, 2024) followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers Ammar Aziz (8 January, 2024).

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23/12/2023

We are excited to present a screening of 'A Walnut Tree' directed by Ammar Aziz as a part of , our monthly online documentary screening series featuring films from the Southasian region in collaboration with Himal Southasian.

⭐Introduction of the Films ⭐
A Walnut Tree
Pakistan | 2015 | 81 mins
🎬 Directed by Ammar Aziz

Synopsis: An old man reminisces about a distant homeland. He wants to return. Internally displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict between the Pakistan army and the Taliban and forced to live in a camp, the family is caught between memories of what life was, an insecure present and a bleak future.

Screening Date: 5 - 8 January, 2024
Q/A Session: 8 January
6:00 pm India, Sri Lanka
6:15 pm Nepal
6:30 pm Bangladesh
5:30 pm Pakistan

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29/11/2023

We are excited to present a screening of 'Rasan Piya' directed by Niharika Popli as a part of , our monthly online documentary screening series featuring films from the Southasian region in collaboration with Himal Southasian.

⭐Introduction of the Films ⭐
Rasan Piya
80 mins | 2015 | India
🎬 Directed by Niharika Popli

Synopsis: Rasan Piya is a documentary on the life of renowned Hindustani classical vocalist, Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, who represented the 16th generation of Miyan Tansen’s lineage. He continued not just to compose, but also to teach, travel and perform across all of India till he lived. He passed away recently, on 18th February 2016 at the age of 107 years. His story is that of an extraordinary musician, poet and teacher; of someone who has not only preserved but also added much to an ancient Indian art form; of a brave man who overcame his physical limitations to create beautiful music and inspire a whole generation of musicians and music lovers.

Screening Date: 1 - 4 December
Q/A Session: 4 December
7:30 pm India, Sri Lanka
7:00 pm Pakistan
7:45 pm Nepal
8:00 pm Bangladesh

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25/11/2023

Unveiling new visual Narratives 🌟

Today on 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Hri Institute is proud to launch images and illustrations that defy and challenge stereotypes surrounding sexual violence and women's narratives in Southasia.

Kindly visit https://hrisouthasian.org/changing-visual-narratives/

Though progress has been made in the field of journalism to reframe the conversation surrounding sexual abuse, the visual landscape has not kept up with the changes. Come reimagine the story with us as we explore themes beyond the binary of strength and victimization through striking visuals and art. Witness a gallery of illustrations and photographs in the coming days that go beyond conventional portrayals.

The Challenging Visual Depiction of Women and Sexual Violence in Media in Southasia project is a collaborative effort between the Hri Institute and talented artists, filmmakers, and photographers from Nepal and India. Over the past year, these creatives have delved into the intricate layers of survivorship, uncovering themes of care, healing, community, agency, and autonomy.

We express gratitude to visionary artists who have contributed to this transformative initiative: Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Shaili Malla, Prakash Ranjit, Pallavi Payal, Sapana Sanjeevani, Sara Toinch, Laxmi Gurung, Mrigaja Bajracharya, Priyanka Maharjan, Samana Rai and Alina Chhantel.

This launch is not just a moment but a movement. We invite everyone to explore and use the illustrations and photographs in their reporting, fostering an organic growth of this image bank. Our mission is to continue collaborating with more artists, students, and photographers throughout the region, amplifying voices and dismantling stereotypes. All the artworks and images are available for free download, but we kindly ask for credit to the Hri Institute and the artists. For high-res copies and usage, please email [email protected].

Let's collectively shape a new visual language that reflects the intricate tapestry of women's experiences!

Image credit from top left to clockwise direction:

Priyanka Maharjan
Shaili Malla
Pallavi Payal and Sapana Sanjeevani
Mrigaja Bajracharya
Sheelasha Rajbhandari
Alina Chhantel
Sara Toinch
Prakash Ranjit
Laxmi Gurung