Shambhala

Shambhala (2024)

शम्भाला

In a Himalayan polyandrous village in Nepal, newly married and pregnant Pema tries to make the best of her new life. But soon, her first husband Tashi vanishes on the trade route to Lhasa. Accompanied by her monk de facto husband, Karma, she embarks on a journey into the unforgiving wilderness to find him, evolving into a quest of self discovery and liberation.

Date of release
2024-09-13
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (14)
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Min Bahadur Bham

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $1.1M

Shambhala is a 2024 drama film directed by Min Bahadur Bham from a screenplay written by Bham and Abinash Bikram Shah. Starring Thinley Lhamo, Tenzin Dalha and Sonam Topden. Shambhala is the most expensive movie of Nepal made on the budget रू15 crore. It was selected in the Competition at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Bear. Set in Nepal’s Upper Dolpo, the film follows Pema, a pregnant woman from a Tibetan-speaking Buddhist Himalayan community, as she searches for her missing husband. A task which she has to do amidst being pregnant under challenging precarious circumstances.

Production

The film was shot in the Upper Dolpo region of the Himalayas, between Nepal and Tibet, one of the highest human settlements on the planet located between 4,200 to 6,000 meters above sea level. Min Bahadur Bham planned to direct his second directorial venture as a full-fledged female-driven survival road film.

In 2018, the director Min Bahadur Bham received 6,000 Euros at the Locarno Film Festival and the film was co-produced with the support of Locarno’s Open Doors Hub. The film script was conferred with the Norwegian Sorfond Award in 2019 after being shortlisted among the contenders to receive the grant under the Norwegian South Film Fund's pitching forum.

At the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker received 60,000 US dollars as a special cash prize to engage in the execution of the script by converting the script into a full-length feature film. The film also received a special cash prize of 75,000 Euros from the TRT 12 Punto Script Lab of Turkey for its script.

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