Dear community members,
International Nepali Literary Society (INLS), Washington D.C. cordially invites you to Laxmi Jayanti program on the occasion of birth anniversary of Nepal’s great poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota. Language, literature and culture are basic foundations of our society and identity. Writers and litterateurs such as Devkota are real creators and promoters of Nepali identity and culture. Please join us to pay respect as well as recognize and honor those who deserve it.
In addition to paying tribute to Devkota, listening to heart touching poems of local poets (Moti Samasyapurti Poem Competition) and watching selected Nepali songs and dance performances of local artists, you will also be entertained with Nepali feature film
MUKUNDO (MASK OF DESIRE)
MUKUNDO (MASK OF DESIRE) is a stormy and sensuous exploration of shamanic ritual, female desire, and forbidden love in modern-day Nepal. Tsering Rhitar Sherpa delivers a refreshing portrait of modern Nepal, one in which mysticism is treated as a basis aspect of everyday line not as a special effect. The movie breaks industry barriers as well as traditional narrative and thematic convention. The movie was short listed for the 2000 Foreign Language Oscar. Film will be screened with English subtitles.
What: Laxmi Jayanti and Mukundo Film Show
Where: Johnson Center Cinema Hall, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
When: Sunday, November 17, 2002 at 5:30PM
(Tickets will be sold at the door starting 5:00PM)
Entrance: $10.00, free entrance for children under 10 years
Direction: http://www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.html
More information: info@inls.org, (703) 815-1248, http://www.inls.org
MUKUNDO (MASK OF DESIRE)
Director: Tsering Rhitar Sherpa
Story: Kesang Tseten and Tsering Rhitar Sherpa
Cast: Mithila Sharma, Gauri Malla, Ratan Subedi, and Rama Thapalia
Film screened in the following International Film Festivals:
* **Considered for Best Foreign Language Film (Nepal) at the Academy Awards, 2000
* 3rd Asian Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 10th to 20th Dec., 1999
* Goteberg International Film Festival, Sweden, 28th Jan to 6th Feb. 2000
* Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland, 12th to 19th March 2000
* San Francisco International Film Festival, USA, 20th April to 4th May, 2000
* Fukuoka International Film Festival, Japan, 8th to 16th September 2000
* Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 22nd Sept to 5th October 2000
* Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 20th to 29th November 2000
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