Himalaya (film)

Himalaya
Theatrical release poster
Directed byÉric Valli[1]
Written byJean-Claude Guillebaud
Éric Valli
Louis Gardel
Produced byChristophe Barratier
Jacques Perrin
StarringTsering Dorjee
Thinle Lhondup
Gurgon Kyap
Lhakpa Tsamchoe[1]
Music byBruno Coulais
Production
company
Galatée Films
Distributed byKino International
Release date
  • 13 September 1999 (1999-09-13) (U.S.)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryNepal
LanguagesDolpo, Nepali, German
Budget$4.4 million
Box office$40.1 million[2]

Himalaya: Caravan (French: Himalaya: L'Enfance d'un chef) is a 1999 Nepali film directed by Éric Valli and was funded through based in France corporations. It was the first Nepalese film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at the 72nd Academy Awards.[3]

The film is a narrative on both the traditions and the impermanent nature of human struggle to retain and express power in the face of the gods. "The gods' triumph" is the call that echoes at the end of the film and expresses the balancing of karmic destinies. The extreme environment of the Himalayas is magnificently contrasted to the delicacy of humanity and the beauty of Tibetan culture.

The film depicts not only the life style of the upper Dolpo people of the mid western uphills of Nepal but also their traditional customs, for example celestial burial.

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  2. ^ "Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef (1999) - JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  3. ^ Dixit, Kanak Mani (1 March 2000). "At last, Himalayan cinema". Himal Southasian. Retrieved 29 April 2023.