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Helicopter Rescues, Motorbike Accidents, Altitude Sickness: How Nepal’s Min Bahadur Bham Overcame the Odds to Shoot Berlin Competition Title ‘Shambhala’ (EXCLUSIVE)


Nepali filmmaker Min Bahadur Bham's journey to make Berlin competition title 'Shambhala' was arduous but an ultimately rewarding one.

Nepali filmmaker Min Bahadur Bham ‘s journey to make Berlin competition title “ Shambhala ” was arduous but an ultimately rewarding one. His debut feature “Kalo Pothi” (aka “The Black Hen,” 2015) won the Fedeora best film award at Venice Critics’ Week and became Nepal’s official Oscar entry. “Shambhala” – a mystic, sacred realm in Tibetan Buddhism, also an area of significance in Hinduism, which means a place of peace – begins in a Himalayan polyandrous village in Nepal, where pregnant Pema faces scrutiny as her first husband Tashi vanishes on a trade trip to Lhasa.

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