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Deepak Rauniyar

New York based Nepali filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar’s second feature project “White Sun” has been selected for L’Atelier of Cannes film festival 2014.

L’Atelier, the co-production workshop held as part of Cinefondation, hand picks projects from all over the world and invites the directors and their producers to meet potential partners during the festival.

Rauniyar’s 2012 project Highway premiered at the Berlinale in Panorama section.

White Sun is a dark comedy about life in a Nepali village in the wake of the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. Little Pooja lives with her mother Durga and grandfather Chitra in a remote mountain village. She has never met her father, Agni, who joined the Maoist guerrillas and left their village years ago to fight the government. The devastating war is over, and Agni’s rebel Maoist party now heads the government.

The project was a part of Nfdc Film Bazaar,...

The tenth edition of the co-production showcase at the Cannes Film Festival includes new projects from Brazil’s Antonio Méndez Esparza and Mexico’s Daniel Castro Zimbrón.

The Cinéfondation’s Atelier hosts its tenth edition this year and will invite 15 directors and their projects to the Cannes Film Festival.

Together with their producers, they will be given the opportunity to meet potential partners in a bid to finish their projects and start the making their films.

From May 16-22, L’Atelier will arrange meetings with the directors for film industry professionals interested in investing in their projects.

The Project Book and the meeting request forms will be available online at the beginning of April at www.cinefondation.com.

The project line-up includes Saudade, Brazilian director Antonio Méndez Esparza’s follow up to Aqui y Alla, which won Cannes’ Critics Week in 2012. The new film, set in Spain, focusses on immigration through a mother-son story.

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The tenth edition of the co-production showcase at the Cannes Film Festival includes new projects from Brazil’s Antonio Méndez Esparza and Mexico’s Daniel Castro Zimbrón.

The Cinéfondation’s Atelier hosts its tenth edition this year and will invite 15 directors and their projects to the Cannes Film Festival.

Together with their producers, they will be given the opportunity to meet potential partners in a bid to finish their projects and start the making their films.

From May 16-22, L’Atelier will arrange meetings with the directors for film industry professionals interested in investing in their projects.

The Project Book and the meeting request forms will be available online at the beginning of April at www.cinefondation.com.

The project line-up includes Saudade, Brazilian director Antonio Méndez Esparza’s follow up to Aqui y Alla, which won Cannes’ Critics Week in 2012. The new film, set in Spain, focusses on immigration through a mother-son story.

Argentina’s [link...

The tenth edition of the talent showcase includes new projects from Brazil’s Antonio Méndez Esparza and Mexico’s Daniel Castro Zimbrón.

The Cinéfondation’s Atelier hosts its tenth edition this year and will invite 15 directors and their projects to the Cannes Film Festival.

Together with their producers, they will be given the opportunity to meet potential partners in a bid to finish their projects and start the making their films.

From May 16-22, L’Atelier will arrange meetings with the directors for film industry professionals interested in investing in their projects.

The Project Book and the meeting request forms will be available online at the beginning of April at www.cinefondation.com.

The project line-up includes Saudade, Brazilian director Antonio Méndez Esparza’s follow up to Aqui y Alla, which won Cannes’ Critics Week in 2012. The new film, set in Spain, focusses on immigration through a mother-son story.

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W hite Sun is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013.

Deepak Rauniyar

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White Sun is a dark comedy about life in a Nepali village in the wake of the decade-long conflict that ended in 2006. Little Pooja lives with her mother Durga and grandfather Chitra in a remote mountain village. She has never met her father, Agni, who joined the Maoist guerrillas and left their village years ago to fight the government. The devastating war is over, and Agni’s rebel Maoist party now heads the government.

Agni returns to the village for the first time in 10 years for Chitra’s funeral. Pooja watches her father and mother readjust to each other’s presence and her father fight with the family’s closest friend, Suraj – who fought on the government side during the war. When Suraj leaves, Agni cannot find...