Deepak Rauniyar
About
Deepak Rauniyar is a director, screenwriter, and producer. A former critic, he became the first Nepali director to compete at a major international film festival when his debut Highway premiered at the 2012 Berlinale. His second film White Sun, premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival to rave reviews and has screened throughout the world (Toronto, Busan, Locarno, Rotterdam), winning awards at Venice, Singapore, and Palm Spring film festivals. The film was Nepal’s official selection for the 90th Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. The New York Times recently described Rauniyar as one of “The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch." He is an alumnus of the Toronto and Berlinale Talent Campuses as well as the Cannes Cinéfondation program and has served a member of the jury at Locarno and Sydney Film Festivals, and Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The Sky is Mine
Pooja breaks centuries-old barriers to become first female Superintendent, but nothing has prepared her for her first case: two boys are kidnapped with no clues and only 24 hours to save in a town in midst of racial unrest.
Wiring Utopia
In 1971, a wealthy British cybernetician gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is invited to create an “electronic nervous system” — the world’s first internet — in socialist Chile. Under constant threat of a coup, his team creates an idealistic technology which could transform the world.
White Sun
White Sun is a dark comedy about life in a Nepali mountain village in the wake of the decade-long armed conflict.