White Sun: Directed by Deepak Rauniyar [Film Recommendation]

 

"Pooja, a little girl, lives with her mother Durga and beloved grandfather in a remote village in the eastern hills of Nepal. Her father Agni, whom she has never met, joined the Maoist guerrillas and left their village to fight against the regime years ago. The death of Pooja’s grandfather brings Agni back to the village for the burial rites. Thrilled at the prospect of her father’s return, Pooja watches dismayed as he arrives with a disabling war wound, struggles to cope with her mother’s independence, and fights with the family’s closest friend through the hard years – the village doctor Suraj, who was on the government side during the war. Alienating everyone around him, Agni cannot find enough men to carry his father’s body to the river for the cremation. Agni’s father lies on bamboo platform in the hot sun waiting for the funeral rites. As he looks for help among police, rebel guerillas and neighboring villages, a portrait of post-conflict Nepal emerges."

 

 

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