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THE RED SUITCASE
THE RED SUITCASE
FIDEL DEVKOTA
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THE RED SUITCASE
THE RED SUITCASE
FIDEL DEVKOTA
Country
NEPAL | SRI LANKA
language
NEPALI
2023 year
87 Minutes

Synopsis

A pick-up truck driver leaves Kathmandu airport for a two-day drive with a delivery arriving from abroad to a remote mountain village. On the high road, a solitary figure slowly makes his way, wheeling a small red suitcase toward the same village.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Icefall Productions (Ram Krishna Pokharel, Shova Thapa), Film Council Productions, Cine Sankipa
Screenplay: Fidel Devkota
Director of Photography: Sushan Prajapati
Editor: Saman Alvitigala
Music: Uttsav Budhathoki
Sound: Shrawal Raj Pandey, Sudeepta Sadhukhan
Cast: Saugat Malla, Prabin Khatiwada, Bipin Karki, Shristhi Shrestha, Sonam Lama, Anju Deuja, B. Bishowkarma
Awards - Winner: N/A
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Venice FF (Venice Horizons Award - Best Film), Zurich FF (Golden Eye - Best International Feature Film)
Director's Biography
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FIDEL DEVKOTA

Fidel Devkota is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist from Nepal who has been active as a filmmaker, anthropologist, photographer, and lecturer for the past decade. His works are mainly focused on human-environmental relationships, addressing the themes of spiritual, social, and economic transformation in a time of environmental and political change in the Himalayas. BONE TRUMPET was his debut fiction film. His latest feature film, THE RED SUITCASE (2023), has been selected at the Venice IFF.