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The Kite Runner

Based on Khaled Hosseini’s acclaimed novel, The Kite Runner is an emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. Amir is best friends with Hassan, the son of his father’s servant, despite the differences in their background and class. But jealousy leads him to betray Hassan’s friendship twice over, and send him away from the house. More...


Sonam (The Fortunate One)

Sonam comes from the remotest corner of India – the emerald hills of Arunachal Pradesh on the Northeast Frontier, which remain off-limits to foreigners even today due to their strategic position as a region contested between India and China. It is the first film ever made in Monpa, a language of farmers and shepherds in the high hills and valleys. More...


Frozen

Shot in the icy Winter of Ladakh, in India’s far north, Frozen is the story of a small family left without a mother. In debt and with few sources of income, Karma has difficulty supporting his two children Lasya and Chomo. Their lives become even more difficult when the army sets up camp a stone’s throw from their house. More...


Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (15)

Chuan Lu’s riveting film plays out a conflict which flares up all over the world: a struggle for control of dwindling natural resources, in this case in a remote region, far away from the state’s eye. It is set on the northern edges of the Tibetan plateau, where local vigilantes have taken the law into their own hands to confront poachers who are hunting the local species of antelope towards extinction. More...


Kashf, The Lifting of the Veil

A film about homecoming and belonging, Kashf opens with Armaghan’s return to his native Pakistan after 25 years abroad. He is searching for the Sufi holy man who blessed his mother before he was born, thereby committing her son to the spiritual path. More...


The Forest

Ashvin Kumar’s latest film, The Forest is a haunting thriller, exploring the darker side of man’s character, and his vulnerability in the face of the real wilderness. A metropolitan couple go on holiday in the forests of the Himalayan foothills, hoping to patch up their troubled marriage, but a chance meeting with the wife’s old flame arouses old passions and new, dangerous rivalries. But the feuding lovers are not alone. More...


The Cup (Phorpa)

While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. More...


Himalaya (15)

Eric Valli’s classic film takes us to the awesome spaces of the High Himalaya in Dolpo, Nepal, on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. After the village chief’s son dies, the grieving old man blames his son’s death on his friend, and bearing a grudge against him, he organizes a rival caravan to trade salt in the lower valley. In his stubborn pursuit of revenge, he ignores the advice of the local lamas about when he should start his journey, and sets out into the wilderness. More...


Kashmir Ki Kali

This classic Hindi film recalls a bygone time in Kashmir, when the beautiful valley was still the favoured destination of holidaymakers from the plains. Wealthy and spoilt Rajivlal runs away to his family’s bungalow in Kashmir to escape from his mother’s machinations for his marriage. More...


Kagbeni

Released in Kathmandu in 2007 to massive acclaim, Kagbeni is now showing for the first time in the UK. Set in the hard landscape of the Upper Kali Gandaki, the film shows the uneasy intrusion of modernity into a world of timeless magic and unexplained powers. Upon returning to his native village after a long spell in Malaysia, Krishna travels to a nearby village with his childhood friend Ramesh. More...


Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells (12A)

Starring Choi Min-sik of Oldboy fame, in this sensitive film a depressed Korean businessman, Kim, makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to travel to Nepal, to carry the ashes of Sham, an illegal immigrant killed in a road accident, back to his home village in the Annapurna. The journey turns out to be harder than Kim had expected, and he falls ill on the road to the remote village. More...


Travellers and Magicians

After graduating from university, Dondup feels bored by the leisurely pace of life in his village in the small kingdom of Bhutan, and decides to leave to seek his fortune picking grapes in the USA. His ambitious journey begins with a hitchhike through the Bhutanese countryside, and throws him together with a monk, an apple seller, a papermaker and his young daughter, Sonam. More...