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Nepal Government Stops Showing Three Sri Lankan Films
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 4, 2013: on the order of the Sri Lankan government, the government of Nepal has instructed the management of the South Asian film festival held by the Film South Asia (FSA) in Kathmandu not to show three Sri Lankan films, according to the Xinhua news.
The FSA was scheduled to screen three Sri Lankan films such as ‘Broken’, ‘The Story of One’ and ‘No Fire Zone’ but they have to withhold the showing of the films after the government of Nepal ordered the FSA not to do so.
According to the organizer of FSA Nayantara Gurung Kakshapati, the FSA received the orders from the Ministry of Information to stop the screening, but no reasons were given for the stopping the screening of the films.
However, the FSA will screen the films at a different venue for the private audience on Saturday. The films will remain in contention for the award, which carries a cash prize of 2,000 U.S. dollars for the winner, added Kakshapati.
"FSA protests this unwarranted intrusion into the cultural sphere, an action that goes against the freedom of expression and the right of documentary filmmakers to exhibit their work. This obstructs our festival's goal of promoting regional understanding in South Asia," said a press statement released by Chairman of FSA Kanak Mani Dixit.
The FSA is a biennial film festival that has been taking place in Kathmandu since 2007 with a goal to popularize documentaries so that they entertain, inform and changes live.
A total of 55 films from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are selected out of 388 entries for this year's festival.
