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In nearly 25 years since Nepal started competing in the Academy Awards (Oscars), it has not yet won any award. For the first time in the year 2000, 'Himalaya' (Caravan) directed by Eric Vali has not achieved any other achievement other than being nominated in the best five in the foreign language film category.
The 'Himalaya' has crushed the struggle of the people of Dolpa to bring salt from across the Himalayas on yaks. French director Vali shot the film at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters above Dolpa.
Exactly 25 years after the potential shown by 'Himalaya' at the 72nd Oscar, now 'Shambala' has entered the US with potential from Nepal for the 97th Oscar. This time, the Oscar Awards will be held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles for 3 hours continuously from 6:30 am on February 19, according to Nepali time.
The film 'Shambala' directed by Meen Bahadur Bham is competing with the rest of the world's films for the 'International Feature' category of Oscar. A short list of 15 films will be drawn on December 2 (December 17) from the films that have received 'official entries' from around the world for this category, and a month later, the nomination list of the best five foreign films will be drawn for the final competition of the award.
Will Bham's "Shambala" make it to the final list set by Vali-directed "Himalaya" for Nepal at this time or not? awaited. Besides, 'Shambala', which gave Nepal the hope of Oscar for the second time, was also shot by Bham in the 6000 meter altitude area of Upper Dolpa. In which the central character, Pema Bhot, without returning to the village, goes to search for her husband, who is lost somewhere, and the difficult Himalayan journey is covered.
For 'International Feature Film', films from 76 countries have reached the Oscar selection. In which the Brazilian film 'I'm Still Hair', premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is seen as the main contender. Similarly, "World Righteous Blues" from South Africa, "La Luna" from Singapore, "Bruno Moral" from Haiti, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and "Melody" from Tajikistan are also competing. Bosnia and Herzegovina writer and director Danis Tanovic, who won the 2002 Oscar and Golden Globe Award for the film 'No Man's Land', is also participating in this year's Oscars with the film 'My Late Summer'.
Maiti Alberdi Soto, who was nominated for the best documentary at the Oscar last year for "The Eternal Memory", is competing in the international feature film of the Oscar with "In Her Place". Apart from that, Columbia's 'La Supreme', which has reached various festivals, Bangladesh's 'The Wrestler' which premiered in Busan Film, Cambodia's 'Meeting with Polpot' which premiered in Cannes, China's 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru', Hong Kong's 'Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In' And India's 'Lapatta Ladies' is also a major film that can compete with Nepal's 'Shambala' in this category.
Similarly, Japanese film 'Cloud' directed by Kiyoshi Kurusova, Pakistan's 'The Glassworker', South Korea's '12.12: The Day', Taiwan's 'World Fox', Iceland's 'Touch', Ukraine's 'La Palisade', Israel's 'Com Closer', Morocco's 'Everybody Loves Touda' are also strong contenders for the award.
