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Ashmina

Synopsis

Nestled between a beautiful lake and the Himalayas, Ashmina, 13, lives with her family at the outskirts of Pokhara Nepal, paragliding capital of the world. The remote and traditional town is also a busy tourist destination where the locals are profoundly affected by the swarms of tourists who visit it daily. Forced to skip school, Ashmina helps her family make ends meet by working at the landing field, packing the parachutes of foreign pilots in return of small change.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
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Details

Year
2018
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
16 mins
Format
Red
Director
Dekel Berenson
Producer
Merlin Merton, Dekel Berenson, Dominic Davey
Executive Producer
Elad Keidan, Omar Parker
Editor
Ricardo Mesquita
Screenwriter
Dekel Berenson
Director of Photography
Vasco Viana
Sound
Sound Recordist: Miguel Antunes; Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer: Hugo Leitão
Principal cast
Dikshya Karki, Fabian Gleeson, Prakat Pageni, Sadhana Bhandari

Genre

Human Rights Asian Children’s Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Nepal, UK coproduction

168 Wardour Filmworks

2 Macklin House
1-7 Macklin Street
London
WC2B 5NH

Sales Company

Salaud Morisset

88, Rue Armand Silvestre
92400 Courbevoie
France
+33 6 60 42 32 32 / +49 1 52 25 19 23 36

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