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White Sun

Nepal / 2016 /89 minutes / DRAMA / Nepali with English subtitles
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SYNOPSIS

White Sun trots through the scars that remain from the civil war with dramatic tension and surprising moments of absurdist comedy, all the while churning the wheels towards reconciliation through the eyes of the young and innocent. -SIFF

When his father dies, former anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village after nearly a decade away. 
Little Pooja is anxiously awaiting to see the man she thinks is her father for the first time. ​But she’s confused when Chandra arrives with Badri, a young street orphan rumored to be his son. She tries to calm her mother Durga, the old man's caretaker, after she is excluded from preparing the body for funeral rites because tradition does not allow women to participate.
Chandra‘s arrival is more awkward than he expected and he must face his brother Suraj, who was on the opposing side during the civil war. He must seek help from outside the village to obey the rigid caste and discriminatory gender traditions he fought to eliminate during the war. 

VARIETY REVIEW - Nepali helmer Deepak Rauniya's outstanding second feature is a powerful drama about people and a nation at the crossroads...

http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/white-sun-review-1201924028/

TIFF - In White Sun, director Deepak Rauniyar explores the various perspectives of the village's inhabitants, finding in their lives a quiet poetry that speaks of collective memory and pain.
http://www.tiff.net/films/white-sun/

BBC - The Nepalese film that holds a mirror to post war society http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38249328
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​SUNDAY, APRIL 23rd
REGAL ARBOR - AUSTIN, TX


11:00 am - 1:00 pm​
The Robe, a short film, right before White Sun.
​If you have purchased tickets for White Sun, it will include screening of  The Robe.
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DEEPAK  RAUNIYAR (WRITER-DIRECTOR)
Deepak Rauniyar’s  feature film  debut, HIGHWAY, premiered at the Berlin Inter- national Film Festival (Panorama,  2012), and was the  first Nepali film  ever to screen at a major international festival. HIGHWAY provoked a tumultuous re- sponse in Nepal with its realistic characters and their taboo-shrouded issues. The film  opened the New York MoMA’s  2013 ContemporAsian series and received a run to enthusiastic crowds. WHITE SUN  is Deepak’s second feature.

JOSLYN  BARNES (PRODUCER,  LOUVERTURE  FILMS)
 Joslyn Barnes is a writer and producer. Among the films she has been involved with producing since co-founding Louverture  Films together  with actor Danny Glover and partners Susan Rockefeller and Bertha Foundation are: the feature documentaries TROUBLE THE WATER, THE BLACK POWER  MIXTAPE 1967-1975, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, CONCERNING VIOLENCE, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, SHADOW WORLD by Johan Grimonprez, and the forthcoming STRONG ISLAND by Yance Ford, ANGELS ARE  MADE  OF  LIGHT  by James Longley, and AQUARE- LA by Victor Kossakovsky; the narrative features BAMAKO, THE  TIME THAT  RE- MAINS,  UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN  RECALL HIS PAST LIVES,  HIGHWAY, THE NARROW FRAME OF  MIDNIGHT, CEMETERY  OF  SPLENDOUR, WHITE SUN  by Deepak Rauniyar and the forthcoming ZAMA  by Lucrecia Martel.

CAST
Dayahang Rai                  Agni / Chandra
Asha Maya Magrati         Durga
Rabindra Singh Baniya   Suraj
Sumi Malla                        Pooja
Amrit Pariyar                    Badri
CREW
​​Director:                              
Deepak Rauniyar
Music composed by:        Vivek Maddala
Producers:                           Deepak Rauniyar
                                                Joslyn Barnes
                                                Tsering Rhitar Sherpa
                                                Michel Merkt

Screenplay:                          Deepak Rauniyar, David Barker
AWARDS/FESTIVALS
 New Directors New Films, New York 2017
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2017
(New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize)
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
Busan International Film Festival 2016
Toronto International Film Festival 2016
Venice Film Festival 2016
(INTERFILM AWARDS)
Valladolid International Film Festival 2016
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2016
Dubai International Film Festival 2016
Singapole International Film Festival 2016
(SILVER SCREEN AWARDS)

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  • Schedule
  • FILMS
    • Shor Se Shuruaat
    • An Insignificant Man
    • Parting
    • Chronicles of Hari
    • Mukti Bhawan
    • White Sun
    • Phobia
    • Lipstick Under My Burkha
    • The Cinema Travellers
    • The Robe
    • Leeches
    • The New Machine
    • Foren
    • Me Chabbar Abu Chachu
    • Sameer And The Giant Samosa
  • Tickets
  • Sponsors
  • Press Room
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