NO WINTER HOLIDAYS

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY | 79 MIN | 2023

NEPAL, SOUTH KOREA, ROMANIA

Logline Two women in their seventies once shared the same husband. Now they must forget the past and work together to guard an empty, snowed-in Himalayan village for the entire winter.

Directors and screenwriters Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey
Producers Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey Gary Kam Byung-Seok, Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi
Production companies Salpa Films (Nepal), 129 Film Company (Nepal), Mirror & Story (South Korea), NoCut Film Collective (Romania)
Cinematographer Babin Dulal
Additional Cinematography Shishir Bishankhe
Editor Kiran Shrestha
Sound design Cyrus Tang, Dikesh Khadgi Shahi, Kishore Acharya
Scoring/Composition/Music Rajan Shrestha
Color grader Rajendra Moktan
Sales Tijana Djukic (Stranger Films) | tiana@strangerfilmssales.com

Poster Artwork Deyali Mukherjee, Sriram Raja (SRDM Pictures)
Title Design Anand Maharjan
Trailer and Credits Design Sandeep Shrestha
Subtitles Nasala Chitrakar
Production Support Kipalaya Production
Post Production Icefall Productions, Aslesha Entertainment, Wabi-Sabi Media, Mallaaj Productions  

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

World Premiere Sheffield DocFest, First Feature Competition | UK 2023
DMZ International Documentary Film Festival | South Korea 2023 | Asian Premiere - International Competition
Dharamshala International Film Festival | India 2023
Alternativa Film Awards | Kazakhstan 2023 | NATIVA Awards - Winner
Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival | Nepal 2023 | Best Feature Documentary Award
DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival | Azerbaijan 2023 | Special Mention for Best Feature Documentary
Lima Alterna International Film Festival | Peru, 2023 | International Competition Honorable Mention

SUPPORTED BY

DMZ Docs Fund | South Korea 2020
The 19th Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum - *Awarded with WIP Documentary Award & “HAF Goes To Cannes” Award | Hong Kong 2021

PARTICIPATED AT

Marché du Film Cannes | France, 2021
Locarno Open Doors Editing Consultancy | Switzerland, 2021
Global Media Makers (LA Residency) | U.S.A., 2021/22
DMZ Docs Pitch | South Korea 2020
The Whickers Pitch Finalists | Sheffield Doc/Fest | UK 2020
DocEdge Kolkata Asian Forum for Documentary | India 2019 - *Awarded Best Emerging Filmmaker & DocEdge-DocAviv Award