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Kathmandu,Sunday March 19, 2000 Chaitra 06, 2056.
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Movie-goers in for foreign fare
By a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU, March 18 - For those movie-goers who
want a taste of movies other than Hollywood, Bollywood and Kollywood masalas,
Inter-Cultural Film Society is here, giving the Nepali audience a flavour of International
movies - movies that would have otherwise been impossible to get here.
The first screening, Dance of the Wind was on today
at the Russian Cultural Centre. The film is about Pallavi, a young singer who loses her
voice after her mother’s (who is also her guru) death. Her pursuit to find "pure
music" leads her to BABA, her guru’s guru, through whom Pallavi finds her voice.
This soul searching, mystical movie ends with the core thought - "Stop searching -
then only music will find you."
The story which weaves through the brilliant acting
of Kitu Gidwani and the direction of Rajan Kohsa symbolizes the guru-disciple relationship
and the "oral tradition of songs", according to Kohsa.
"Most of the films that we intend to show
would be like a piece of narrative, very subjective in approach," said Prem B.
Basnet, chairperson of the working committee of the society during the commencement of the
film. The idea of the society was conceived by Susi Groeli, a Swiss citizen, who worked on
the project for three years.
The society aims to bring diverse feature films
from different cultures around the globe to the audience for the promotion of
inter-cultural understanding. The next movie, an Argentine film - Do not die without
telling me where you are going, will be screened on April 22.
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