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Return
to
Nepal

a one-hour documentary

{2008}

News

>> Return to Nepal screened at the Himalaya Film Festival 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Visit their website for more info.

>> Return to Nepal screened as part of the ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival - Saturday, January 24th at 4:30pm, at the Showplace theatre in Peterborough, ON.

>> Return to Nepal is now on sale through our online shop! A portion of all proceeds goes to support the programs of USC Canada.

>> Return to Nepal played to sold-out, appreciative audiences at the Banff Mountain Film Festival (November 1-9, 2008). Visit the website of this great festival which celebrates mountain culture here.

>> Return to Nepal screened to a full house in Toronto at the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival - October 22-26, 2008. Planet in Focus website here.

Description

Producer/director Robert Lang and cinematographer Guy Clarkson accompany musician Bruce Cockburn as he returns to the spectacular Himalayan country of Nepal after twenty years away.

They find a land where much has changed, with a Maoist government recently installed, women newly empowered and fresh initiatives to deal with the grinding poverty of the majority of the Nepali people. But it's also a land where, in some of the remotest areas, life is lived much in the way it has for centuries -- salt caravans, subsistence farming on steep mountain terraces and off-the-grid villages connected by an ancient network of footpaths.

Return to Nepal is a revealing glimpse at a corner of the world we know little about, but whose people have much to offer us: spiritual wisdom, tactics for survival in a tough land and shining examples of interdependence and determination.

Share Bruce's journey, through video updates and journal entries from the field. Follow Bruce's journey here.