Mrigatrishna (The Mirage)

Nepal

2021

26 min

The Mirage’ is a poetic, meditative journey of Manish, who embarks on a trip to his uncle’s home with his mother as the civil war is underway. On this journey, he discovers a beggar who changes his religion for liberation, a rebellion for emancipation from capitalism. His uncle, on the other hand, wants freedom from the rebel group. Organically, he discovers three different lives each in their own way seeking to achieve the common value of liberation that seems like mirage.

Original Language

Nepali

Direction

Santosh Dahal

Camera

Ankit Poudel

Editing

Animesh Sapkota

Sound

N/A

Script

Santosh Dahal

Producer

Prem Prasad Adhikary

About the filmmaker.

Nepal-based director Santosh Dahal, born in 1990, is an alumnus of Oscar International College. His graduation film, The Pledge (2016), screened at the Singapore International Film Festival, Queens World Film Festival and the Toronto Nepali Film Festival. The Mirage (2021) screened at Raindance. He is currently developing his debut feature, The Flowers of Wild Sugarcane, that was selected at the Busan Asian Film School 2022 and will be produced by Simal Cinema.

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