MARYLAND 2023 | NAIFF — Nepal America International Film Festival of Maryland, organized by the Nepal America Film Society, has announced the lineup for its 2023 festival. It includes debut features from writer-directors Saim Sadiq (Joyland, Pakistan) and Sujit Bidari (Butterfly on a Windowpane, Nepal).
NAIFF2023 will take place from June 22 to June 25 at the AFI Silver Theater and Culture Center in Silver Spring and at the Old Greenbelt Theatre in Greenbelt, Maryland. Thirty-eight films from 11 countries, including shorts and features, will be screened during the festival.
This year’s festival will also feature two films as part of the Global Peace Film Festival Sidebar— ‘Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice in Washington DC’ directed by Sam George, and ‘World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements’ directed by Chris Farina. Short film ‘Lori,’ directed by Abinash Bikram Shah and awarded a Special Mention at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, and director Deepak Rauniyar’s short film ‘Four Nights,’ will also be featured in the festival.
Nepal’s official submission for the Best International Feature Film to the 95th Academy Awards, Butterfly On A Windowpane, will open this year’s festival on Thursday, June 22, at the AFI Silver Theater. The screening will follow a red-carpet event featuring guests and filmmakers. The closing night at the same venue on Sunday, June 26, will screen ‘PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest’ directed by Nancy Svendsen. Throughout the festival, a variety of events supported by the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission will take place, including talk programs and panel discussions at Brentwood Arts Exchange. The lineup for talk programs and panel discussions will be announced soon.
Details of the lineup are available on the website of the Nepal America Film Society, the organizer of NAIFF, at www.nafilmsociety.org. Follow #NAIFF2023 on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn for more updates.
The full film lineup is detailed below:
Features
Butterfly on the Windowpane | 93 min | Nepal | Dir.Sujit Bidari (Opening)
Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest | 67 min | USA | Dir. Nancy Svendsen (Closing)
Children of Peace| 93 min | Israel | Dir. Maayan Schwartz
Elephant | 73 min | Poland | Dir. Kamil Krawczycki
Joyland |126 min | Pakistan | Dir.Saim Sadiq
On These Mountains | 75 min | Italy | Dir. Andrea Sbarretti
Sloane: A Jazz Singer | 96 Min | USA| Dir. Michael Lippert
The Riyalists |69 min | Nepal | Dir. Kesang Tseten
The Secrets of Radha | 95 min | Nepal | Dir. Subarna Thapa
When We Were Saints | 65 min | USA | Dir. Theodore Adams III
Global Peace Film Festival — SideBar Section
Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice in Washington DC | 50 min | USA |Dir. Sabiyha Prince & Samuel George
World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements | 50 min | USA |Dir. Chris Farina
Shorts
A Journey of Innocent | 6.01 min | Nepal | Dir. Pratibha Pant, Kalpana Ban
Coming Out With The Help Of A Time Machine | 15 min | USA | Dir. Naman Gupta
Dinner Intended for two | 1.4 min | Iran | Dir. Bahram Akbari Zarin Ghabaei
Do Ducks Migrate |25 min | India | Dir. Midhun G Babu
Four Nights| 14 min | USA/ Nepal/ Mexico | Dir. Deepak Rauniyar
Gosain: The Colours of Spring | 27.30 min | India | Dir.Bishal Swargiary
Gurkha Girl | 34 min | Nepal | Dir. Bishal Roka Magar
Gyani Maiya | 25 min | Nepal | Dir. Subhashish Panigrahi
Jarna | 10 min | Nepal | Dir. Enuma Rai
Junko |14.59 min | Nepal | Dir. Minsho Limbu
Kathmandu Monsoon | 18:20 min | Nepal | Dir. Ngima Gelu Sherpa
Khulla Aakash | 7:31 min | Nepal | Dir. Dimpal Rajthala, Bhawana Adhikari
Lori | 14 min | Nepal | Dir. Abinash Bikram Sha
Mero Buwa | 6.54 min | Nepal | Dir. Shrisha Kunwar, Angela Chaudhary
Pianoman | 53 min | USA | Dir. Sunny Wenxin Liu
Resurrection under the Ocean | 2.57 min | Turkey | Dir. Serkan Aktaş
Sound of the Lake | 5.19 min| USA | Dir. Cale Green, Johnny Holder, Daphne Wong
The Mirage | 26.30 min | Nepal | Dir. Santosh Dahal
The Sound of Dreaming | 28.45 min | Nepal | Dir. Kalani Gacon
The True Summit | 30 min | USA | Dir. Corban Robbe
Unsolvable | 7.06 min | China | Liang Han
VALERY | 6.21 min | Nepal | Dir. Derek Patterson
Wheels On The Bus| 15.24 min | Nepal | Dir. Surya Shahi
Where the winds die | 12.54 min | Iran | Dir. Pejman Alipour
Yet Another Winter | 22.22 min | Nepal Dir. Kiran SHRESTHA
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