CHADDR - A River between us

by Minsu Park
  • 2020 Karbe Film GmbH
  • 2020 Karbe Film GmbH
  • 2020 Karbe Film GmbH

    Synopsis

    CHADDR is a feature documentary about a 17-year-old girl Stanzin. Her home town in the heart of Himalaya in Kashmir is facing big changes: Global warming and technological progress change the lives of people rapidly. Until recently children had to follow dangerous mountain pass every year to get from their home village to school. It takes Stanzin 4 days to get to school. The times are changing and the dangerous mountain pass will be turned into an autoroute. The director Minsu Park follows Stanzin on her last way to school, before she graduates and leaves her hometown forever.

    Festivals

    2020
    FFF Talent Award Documentary Film — 35 DOK.fest Munich
    Filmkunstmesse Leipzig
    2022
    shortlisted #lola22 Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm
    2023
    nominated for 59 Grimme Prize