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Chaddr - A River Between Us

Minsu Park

Germany / 2020 / 88'

CHADDR is a feature documentary about a 17-year-old girl, Stanzin. Her home town in the heart of Himalaya in Kashmir is facing big changes: Global warming and technological progress change the lives of people rapidly. Until recently children had to travel a dangerous mountain pass every year to get from their home village to school. It takes Stanzin 4 days to get to school. The times are changing and the dangerous mountain pass will be turned into an autoroute. The director Minsu Park follows Stanzin on her last way to school, before she graduates and leaves her hometown forever.

Language: English, Ladakhi

Subtitles: Italian

Director

Minsu Park

A German director of South Korean origin, his graduation film at the University of Television and Film in Munich SEWOL - DIE GELBE ZEIT (2017) won many awards, including Studio Hamburg Prize for Best Documentary, Bavaria Culture Prize and Grimme Prize.

Awards

Premio della Giuria

Ed. 2021

Even in a mountain-themed film festival, sometimes it's the most down-to-earth stories that capture our hearts. The winner of the Special Jury Prize portraits an everyday drama in the life of a family in the Himalayas, as 17-year-old Stanzin embarks on the difficult and dangerous 4-day journey from her boarding school and back to her home village. Although the events are dramatic, the film is told in a slow pace and with great attention to the relationship between Stanzin and her parents. It reminds us of the price we sometimes must pay for the sake of our family.

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