Underplayed Gems

Phulsiri (2016)

Phulsiri poster
Directed by
Ngima Gelu Lama
Country
Nepal
Elsewhere
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How it feels

After a devastating earthquake, a traumatized schoolgirl sets out to find her missing shoes before her school reopens. The film follows her simple but urgent quest through the aftermath of the disaster in rural Nepal.

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What happens

Phulsiri is a 2016 Gurung language Nepali fiction film written, produced and directed by Ngima Gelu Lama. The film tells a deceptively simple account of tramautized schoolgirl's quest to her shoes, since, her school is reopening one and half months after the devastating Gorkha earthquake. The film is the first fiction film to be filmed in Gorkha, the epicentre of Nepal earthquake 2015 after the earthquake. The film won Best Children Film in Nepal Culture international Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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