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Highway
Title
Highway / story by Deepak Rauniyar [and others] ; directed by Deepak Rauniyar ; screenplay by Abinash Bikram Shah.
Published
New York. NY : Film Sales Company, [2013?]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Deepak Rauniyar's 2012 feature film debut, Highway (festival title "Autobahn") premiered at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. It is the first film from Nepal to screen at a major international festival.
Dialogue improvised by actors.
Editors, David Barker, Deepak Rauniyar, Rita Meher ; producer, Deepak Rauniyar.
In Nepali with English subtitles.
Summary
A bus bound for Kathmandu is repeatedly stopped by spontaneous civil disobedience blockades -- a frequent phenomenon since the end of the civil war. Meanwhile, a young woman can't decide between her boyfriend and the fiancé arriving to marry her; a gay man hopes to reunite with his estranged lover; a soldier rushes to his wife in time to try out a fertility potion he's swallowed (not knowing she's kept some secrets from him); and the bus driver knows the woman he loves may be forced back into prostitution if he doesn't show up with money for her sick child. Deepak Rauniyar's debut features realistic characters with taboo-shrouded issues, ushering in a new era in Nepali filmmaking.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Nepali
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2018
Credits
Editors, David Barker, Deepak Rauniyar, Rita Meher ; producer, Deepak Rauniyar.
Cast
Dayahang Rai, Asha Maya Magrati, Shristi Ghimire.
System details note
DVD-R.
Subjects
Genre/Form
DVD-Video discs.
Drama.
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