Dadyaa – The Woodpeckers of Rotha 2016
In their remote village, haunted by memories, Atimaley and Devi find themselves faced with a dilemma when a dear friend leaves without saying goodbye.
Directed by Bibhushan Basnet and Pooja Gurung, Dadyaa won the Special Jury Award in Cinematography in Sundance Film Festival 2017. The film was also officially selected in many renowned international and national film festivals.
Biographies:
Based in Kathmandu, the duo of Pooja Gurung and Bibhusan Basnet have been working together for the past 6 years. Their first short film ‘The Contagious Apparitions of Dambarey Dendrite’ was screened in numerous international film festivals including Abu Dhabi, Tampere, Locarno and Kurzfilmtage Winterthur among others. It also won the ‘Golden Comma for Fiction’ at the Alpavirama Short Film Festival in Ahmedabad, India.
‘Dadyaa – The Woodpeckers of Rotha’ is their second short film. Dadyaa had its world premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and has also been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival along with the Busan International Film Festival.
The Duo is working on their first-feature film, The Whole Timers, selected at the Cinefondation L’Atelier of the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and was developed within the Jerusalem International Film Lab.
DMFF Official Selection 2017
