The Himalaya Film Festival Tokyo 2006, the only international film festival for documentaries on the Himalayan region will be held in August 2006.
The Tokyo Festival will rethink the relationship between humans and nature in the context of the Himalayas.
The festival is being held in 2006, the 50th anniversary of the successful ascent of Mt. Manasulu by a Japanese climbing expedition, also the first successful scaling of this Himalayan peak. 2006 is also the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and Japan.
According to organizers, the expedition was acknowledged as a great achievement and boosted the morale of the Japanese people, who had been mentally and economically depressed since World War II.
Year 2006 will be a “Himalaya-first year” in Japan, organizers said.
The Himalayan Film Festival started in 2003 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
16 documentaries will be screened during the festival. The documentaries to be screened during the festival are: “Fatal Game” by James Heyward, “A Higher Calling” by Neal Michaelis, “ Trio for one” by Shay J. Katz, “Call it Karma” by Geoff Browne, “Daughters of Everest” by Sapana Sakya, “Meltdown” by Richard Heap, “ A Man Called Nomad ” by Alex Gabbay, “Farther than the Eye Can See” by Michael Brown, “Into the Thunder Dragon” by Sean White, “Timber to Tibet” by Mohan Mainali, “Schools in the Crossfire” by Dhurba Basnet, “The Spirit Doesn’t Come Anymore” by Tsering Rhitar, “Climbing Manasuru” by Gajiro Yamamoto, “Bhedako Oon Jasto….in search of song…” by Kiran Krishna Shrestha, ”On the road with the red god: MACHHENDRANA by Kesang Tseten and “Indian Journeys: Shiva’s Matted Locks” by William Dalrymple.