Official Selected Films
KIMFF 2025
Table of contents:
International Category
Short Fiction
| Title | Filmmakers | Duration | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| A shadow Grows Within the Void | Sandeep Gn Yadav | 27 min | India |
| Above the Clouds | Sonia V. Josserand-Mercier | 2 min | Thailand |
| Axie and the Wunder Dachsies (Axie en de Wunder Dachsies) | Lisette Wansink | 6 min | Belgium |
| Bayberries Ripen in the Monsoon (काफल पाको आषाढ़) | Pulkit Tomar | 20 min | India |
| Blue Gate (Көк Дарбаза) | Narghiza Dotieva | 18 min | Kyrgyzstan |
| Curettage | Sepideh Ghavami | 12 min | Iran |
| Family Man | Kalani Gacon | 17 min | Nepal |
| Lovely & Tip Top | Yuki Ellias | 30 min | India |
| Mann Aasai | Arivarasan R | 23 min | India |
| Morî | Yakup Tekintangac | 19 min | Turkey |
| Ya Hanouni | Lyna Tadount/ Sofian Chouaib | 3 min | France |
Short Documentary
| Title | Filmmakers | Duration | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In the wake of Shackleton (Tras la estela de Shackleton) | Juan Diego Amador Rivero | 40 min | Antarctica |
| Between Waves | Luke Kaneb | 12 min | United States |
| Butterfly_Bhutan | Sonam Yangzom | 30 min | Bhutan |
| Entropy | Inuk Jørgensen | 10 min | Greenland |
| Land of Dreams | Ambarien Alqadar | 40 min | United States/ India |
| Minus 103 Degrees | Feline Gerhardt | 13 min | United States |
| Odyssea Borealis | Alessandro Beltrame | 44 min | Greenland |
| Ruby Hunters | 21 min | Myanmar | |
| Sama (سما) | Bachar Khattar | 27 min | Lebanon |
| She Creates Change | Martha Adams | 30 min | Bangladesh/ India/ Nepal/ Sri Lanka/ Tanzania/ United Republic of/ Viet Nam |
| The Last Wild Herd: Defending Yellowstone’s Buffalo | Aayas Joshi/ Anna Connors | 13 min | United States |
| Wildflowers | Trixie Pacis | 38 min | Canada |
| Winter Taiga | Dominique Snyers | 49 min | Mongolia |
Feature Doc
| Title | Filmmakers | Duration | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| After the Snowmelt | Arun Bhattarai/ Dorottya Zurbo | 90 min | Bhutan |
| Agent of Happiness | Yi-Shan LO | 108 min | Nepal/ Taiwan |
| Ashima | Kenji Tsukamoto | 86 min | France/ South Africa/ Spain/ United Kingdom/ United States |
| Between The Mountain and The Sky | Jeremy Power Regimbal | 94 min | Canada/ Nepal/ United States |
| Bring Them Home | Ivan MacDonald/ Ivy MacDonald/ Daniel Glick | 86 min | United States |
| Enchanted Matters, the art of Robert Powell | Tom Piozet | 60 min | United States |
| Ghamar Taj | Soureh Cinema Center | 71 min | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Mongolie la Voie de L’aigle | Hamid Sardar | 90 min | Mongolia |
| Sapana | Himalayan Trek to Dreams | Cezary Adamski | 59 min | Nepal |
| Signals of Life | Leandro Picarella | 105 min | Italy/ Switzerland |
| Sophie Lavaud – The Final Summit | François Damilano | 87 min | France/ Pakistan |
| The Lama’s Son | Kesang Tseten | 72 min | Nepal |
| The Parkinsons Project | Jess James | 52 min | Norway/ United Kingdom |
| Without a Pedal – A Bicycle Film About Snowboarding | Nick Khattar/ Johan Rosen | 61 min | United States/ Canada |
Nepal Panorama
Fiction
| Title | Director | Duration | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abyss ‘Beneath the Blues’ | Akriti Dhungana | 12 min | Nepal |
| Case | Jivan Dahal | 10 min | Nepal |
| Helena | Ayarush Paudel | 13 min | United Arab Emirates |
| In Between the Lines | Mahima Nawbagh | 15 min | Nepal |
| It Rained an August Day (I August Regnet Det en Dag) | Ganesh Bista | 14 min | Norway |
| Life is Beautiful in Red and Blue | Aryan Bhandari | 14 min | Nepal |
| Maitighar | Marc Gurung | 15 min | Nepal |
| Silent Scars | Gobinda Prasad Dhakal | 7 min | Nepal |
| Songs of Love and Hate | Saurav Ghimire | 17 min | Nepal |
| The Goddess | Shankar Dhital | 12 min | Nepal |
| What Grows in Thari Maila’s Vegetable Garden? | Patrika Ghimire | 14 min | Nepal |
Documentary
| Title | Director | Duration | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chhau | Saja Sunuwar | 39 min | Nepal |
| Have You Seen My Gods? | Amitabh Joshi | 60 min | United States/ Nepal |
| The People Closest To Heaven (स्वर्गको सबैभन्दा नजिकका मानिसहरू।) | Swek Rai | 6 min | United Kingdom |
| The Unstoppable Man | Saroj Sharma Sapkota | 15 min | Nepal |