Doors open: 6:30pm
OISE Auditorium
(Ontario Institute of Studies in Education)
252 Bloor Street
Toronto [Google Map]
Doors open: 12:30pm
Innis Town Hall
University of Toronto
2 Sussex Avenue
Toronto [Google Map]
Venue: OISE Auditorium, Toronto [Google Map]
Doors open: 6:30pm
Session A: $15
With valid student ID: $10
Gold pass: $50
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| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 6:30pm | Doors open |
| 7:00pm | Welcome remarks |
| 7:15pm | Introduction by film juror |
| 7:20pm | Introduction by co-presenter |
| 7:30pm | Dasdhunga - 136 minutes PG Watch Trailer |
| 8:45pm | Interval for 15 minutes |
| 9:00pm | Film resumes |
| 10:30pm | Film ends |
Disclaimer: Any views represented in the films, political or otherwise are the views of the filmmakers and not of TNFF.
Venue: Innis Town Hall, Toronto [Google Map]
Doors open: 12:30pm
Session B: $10
Session C: $10
Session D: $20
Full day pass: $25
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Gold pass: $50
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| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 12:30pm | Doors open |
| 1:00pm | Welcome remarks |
| 1:10pm | Introduction by co-presenter |
| 1:30pm | Dhulo – 17 minutes Watch Trailer |
| 1:50pm | Cellphone – 12 minutes Watch Trailer |
| 2:05pm | Bansuli – 15 minutes Watch Trailer |
| 2:20pm | Question and Answer w/ Min Bahadur Bham (Director) |
| 2:30pm | False Spring – 15 minutes |
| 2: 46pm | Enemy of Ghosts – 9 minutes |
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 4:00pm | Introduction by co-presenter |
| 4:15pm | Yomari Ya Bankhan – 9 minutes Watch Trailer |
| 4:25pm | Kadamandu – 30 minutes |
| 4:55pm | Chhintang Doesn’t Believe in Tears – 43 minutes |
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 6:30pm | Introduction by co-presenter |
| 6:40pm | Mukundo – 105 minutes |
| 8:25pm | Recorded Question and Answers w/ Tsering Rhitar Sherpa (Director) |
| 8:35pm | Closing Remarks |
| 9:05pm | Award Announcement |
| 9:10pm | Visual Art screening of Photos Circle |
| 9:20pm | Performance |
Disclaimer: Any views represented in the films, political or otherwise are the views of the filmmakers and not of TNFF.

Manjushree Thapa is a writer from Nepal now living in Canada. She has written two novels, Seasons of Flight and The Tutor of History, a short story collection, Tilled Earth, and four books of non-fiction: The Lives We Have Lost, Forget Kathmandu (shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award), A Boy from Siklis, and Mustang Bhot in Fragments. She has also compiled and translated The Country Is Yours, a collection of stories and poems by forty-nine Nepali writers. Her writing has appeared in New York Times, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books and Newsweek.

From Kathmandu, Rajee Aryal received her BA in Computer Science and Mathematics in the United States. She worked as a software engineer for nearly a decade, maintaining a private practice in painting, drawing and writing. Her writings on the importance of Arts and Literature to an individual and the society have been published in the Kathmandu Post. Rajee is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Arts and Design and the Sullivan Galleries in Chicago.

Sharlene Bamboat is a Toronto based mixed media artist, working predominantly in film, video and performance. Drawing on queer critique, she takes up narratives of belonging and identification in order to challenge, subvert, question, and play with the categories of the nation, race, ethnicity, gender and desire. Bamboat’s work has exhibited across Canada, Europe, India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom. She is on the programming committee of the Pleasure Dome Film & Video Collective, as well as the programmer for SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto. www.sharlenebamboat.com
We thank all the donors for their valuable contribution to make this event happen. They say "Little drops of water make a mighty ocean". It could not be more true for TNFF. Any contribution we receive brings us a step closer to fulfilling our objectives of supporting filmmakers we work with.
Parag Shrestha, diplama, jamie.uhrig, Richard Fung, Dr. Tulshi Dharel
Sabin Ninglekhu, Saugar Sainju, Man Bahadur Poudel, akishen, Sapana Sakya, sbajimaya, nepstaraj, gabriele.mallapaty, amar.sainju, prava.shrestha, kristinashrestha, Pratima Ranjit, abanskot, Pushpa Hamal
drannieshrestha, kcsuraj, pratibha.shrestha, shringkhala, dristikanchi, Anjana KC, Shriya Pant, phoorpa
Sachet Siwakoti, Kate Walton
Mizanur, Karla Dhungana, Tim Moody, DP Basnet and Dipshika Basnet, Anjan Chhetry, Pooja Rajbhandari
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