Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival
kathmandu international mountain film festival kimff held kathmandu since starting biennial festival kimff turned annual competitive kimff typically take place around december coincide international mountain day kimff us cinema visual art form workshop discussion forum inform educate wide large variety audience particular issue within duration festival completion festival kathmandu special package film taken various location within nepal part travelling kimff extreme sport adventure religion distinct cultural practice human being relate mountain myriad way world whose character landscape rapidly changing relationship mountain getting broader subtler intricate growing diversity complexity relationship kathmandu international mountain film festival kimff seek explore kimff festival kind east suez brings kathmandu valley recent exciting film mountain mountain environment mountain culture community various corner world kimff screen film produced last three year feature discussion forum ondemand screening well exhibition book photography celebrating mountain festival organized conviction human experience world’s highland especially developing country worth documenting sharing kimff hope encourage deeper understanding social cultural reality region also create sense significance region often farflung organized himal association kimff started noncompetitive biennial festival wide selection film – alpine documentation archival footage adventure cinema experimental short commentary anthropological narrative feature film etc – screened previous four festival movie dealt issue regarding cultural practice lifestyle conflict wildlife mountainclimbing environment globalization gender among many others year festival attracted filmmaker film enthusiast critic also scholar journalist activist mountaineer interest creative intellectual community sustained kimff placed kathmandu valley map international film festival impetus festival always trust community capability audiovisual medium creating social economic transformation kimff also one member international alliance mountain film iamf among others like banff mountain film festival trento film festival autrans others mountain film kathmandu international mountain film festival kimff