Himalaya Film Festival Tokyo 2006
The Himalaya Film Festival Executive Committee will hold the Himalaya Film Festival Tokyo 2006 in August, 2006. The Himalaya Film Festival is the only international film festival for documentaries on the Himalayan region. It was officially started in 2003 at Amsterdam, the Netherlands by Himalaya Archief Nederland, a Dutch NGO. The year of 2006 is the 50-year-anniversary of the epoch-making success for a Japanese climbing expedition reaching Mt. Manasulu. In 1956, the climbing expedition reached Mt. Manasulu (8,163 m) of the Himalayas, which was the world’s first successful scaling of the mountain. The expedition was acknowledged as a great achievement internationally boosted the morale of the Japanese people, who had been mentally and economically depressed since World War II. The year 2006 is also the 50-year-anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Nepal and Japan. Selected international films (16-documentary) on the Himalayan region for Himalaya Film Festival Tokyo 2006:
Further Details: Official Site: http://www.himalaya-tokyo.net
"A Higher Calling" (45min.) (Neal Michaelis)
"Trio for one" (57 min.) (Shay J. Katz)
"Call it Karma" (48 min.) (Geoff Browne)
"Daughters of Everest" (56min.) (Sapana Sakya)
"Meltdown" (50min.) (Richard Heap)
"A Man Called Nomad " (40min) (Alex Gabbay)
"Farther than the Eye Can See" (75min.) (Michael Brown)
"Into the Thunder Dragon" (47min.) (Sean White)
"Timber to Tibet" (30min.) (Mohan Mainali)
"Schools in the Crossfire" (52 min.)(Dhurba Basnet)
"The Spirit Doesn’t Come Anymore" (40min.) (Tsering Rhitar)
"Climbing Manasuru" (100min. ) (Gajiro Yamamoto)
"Bhedako Oon Jasto..in search of song." (55min.)(Kiran Krishna Shrestha)
"On the road with the red god: MACHHENDRANA" (75min.) (Kesang Tseten)
"Indian Journeys: Shiva’s Matted Locks" (50 min.) (William Dalrymple)
International Site: http://www.himalayafilmfestival.nl
(Based on Press Release: July 5, 2006)
