White Sun (2016)

Original title

सेतो सूर्य

Directed by

Deepak Rauniyar

Genre

drama film

Country

Nepal

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his village in Nepal after the civil war to bury his father. He must navigate the lingering tensions between the royalists and Maoists in his community. The film shows how the war continues to affect people's lives.

sombergrittyslow-pacedintrospectivemelancholicthoughtfulrealistic

What happens

White Sun or Seto Surya is a 2016 biographical war drama film directed by Deepak Rauniyar and co-written by Rauniyar, David Barker. It stars Dayahang Rai and Rabindra Singh Baniya in the lead roles alongside Asha Magrati, Sumi Malla, Amrit Pariyar, Deepak Chetri and Deshbhakta Khanal. The film is based on Nepalese Civil War's conflict between royalists and Maoists. It world premiered in the Horizons section at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. It was later screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Nepali entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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