THE NGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

FILM

Across the Himalayas

THENGOIFF 2024 Jury Award on Special Recognition on SDGs & Local Solutions

Director:

Jasper Neupane, Rashmita Limbu

Country:

Sweden

Duration:

30′

PROGRAMME:

11/10

2:00 PM

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SYNOPSIS:

Across the Himalayas is a documentary that will take the audience on Jasper and Rashmita’s personal journey from a poverty-stricken childhood to where they are today, helping educate rural children all over Nepal. It tells the story of the hardships their families had to go through to put them in school and how education helped them turn their lives around. We simultaneously follow Jasper and Rashmita on their recent project in Far-West Nepal – journeying over 5,600 meters across the Himalayas to build computer labs and libraries in 13 schools, thus helping more than 2600 rural children to have a better future through education.