The Black Hen (2015)

Original title

कालो पोथी

Directed by

Min Bahadur Bham

Genre

drama film

Country

Nepal, Germany, France, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

12

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two boys in a remote Nepalese village try to raise a black hen during the country's civil war in the early 2000s. Their simple goal is complicated by the conflict and the harsh realities around them.

slow-burnmelancholictensepoignantunderstatedchildlikegrittyatmospheric

What happens

Kalo Pothi: The Black Hen (Nepali: Kalo Pothi) is a 2015 drama film directed by Min Bahadur Bham and produced by Anna Katchko, Tsering Rhitar Sherpa, Min Bahadur Bham, Debaki Rai, Catherine Dussart and Anup Thapa. The story takes place in Mugu, a district in north-west Nepal in 2001 during the Nepalese civil war (1996–2006). It is the first Nepali film to be screened at the Venice Film Festival. It was selected as the Nepalese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It is also the highest grossing Nepali film in overseas and one of the highest-grossing films in Nepal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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