THE SARI SOLDIERS
Upcoming Screenings
6/07/09 3:00pm Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn Heights Cinema
6/10/09 6:00pm Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn Heights Cinema
6/10- 6/15/09 The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway
6/13/09 3:00pm and 7:00pm, Chicago Human Rights Watch Film Festival, The Facets Cinematheque
6/16/09 9:00pm, Chicago Human Rights Watch Film Festival, The Facets Cinematheque
6/20/09 4:00pm, Maryville University Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri
Previous Screenings
05/27/09 Santa Barbara CA, University
of California
4/22 - 4/25/09 - Gdansk, Poland, Gdansk
DocFilm Festival
04/29/09 7:00pm
- Austin TX, University
of Texas
04/17-04/26/09 - Boston MA, Boston
International Film Festival
04/16/09 7:15pm - Huntington NY, Women's
Herstory Across the Globe, Cinema Arts Centre
04/09/097:30pm - Swarthmore PA, Swarthmore College, LPAC Cinema
03/27-04/05/09 - Sarasota FL, Sarasota
Film Festival
03/31/09 12:30pm
- Christchurch New Zealand, Doc
NZ International Film Festival
03/27/09 6:45pm - Christchurch
New Zealand, Doc
NZ International Film Festival
03/27/09 12:30pm and
03/27/09 6:45pm - Dunedin New
Zealand, Doc
NZ International Film Festival
03/24/09 7:00pm - Slovenia, Ljubljana
Documentary Film Festival
03/24/09 5:00pm - Charleston IL,
Eastern Illinois University http://www.eiu.edu/~filmmnor/feb09.php
03/19/09 5:00pm - Murfreesboro,
TN, Middle
Tennessee State University Honors College
03/19/09 7:30pm -San Francisco,
CA, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts
03/17/09 12:30pm, Wellington
New Zealand, Doc
NZ International Film Festival
03/17/09 12:30pm, Wellington
New Zealand, Doc
NZ International Film Festival
03/12/09 at 5:30pm
03/15/09 at 4:00pm and
03/16/09 at 7:30pm - Prague, Czech
Republic, One
World Film Festival
03/12/09 at 8:30pm
03/13/09 at 2:00pm and
03/14/09 at 6:00pm - Paris, France,
The Paris Human Rights Film Festival
03/14/09 2:00pm - Minneapolis
MN, Walker
Art Center
03/07/09 2:30pm - Cambridge MA, International
Women's Day Film Festival
03/05/09 8:00pm - Toronto, Canada, Toronto
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
03/03/09 7:15pm - Ithaca, NY, Cornell
University Cinema
03/03/09 12:30pm - Auckland, New
Zealand, Doc
NZ International Film Festival
02/27/09 6:45pm - Auckland, New
Zealand, Doc
NZ International Film Festival
02/27/09 6:30pm - Berkeley, CA,
Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific
Film Archive
02/15/09 12:30pm - Boulder, CO, Boulder
International Film Festival
02/14/09 1:00pm - Cumbria, UK, Keswick
Film Festival
02/14/09 7:20pm- Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, The
Himalayan Film Festival
02/13 - 02/15/09 - Clinton, NY,
Hamilton College
02/09/09 7:00pm and 02/15/09 5:00pm
- Westchester, NY, The
Jacobs Burns Center
02/07/09 7:00pm - Seattle
Human Rights Film Festival
01/28/09 5:00pm - Alberta, Canada, University
of Alberta Reel World Film Series
01/25/09 12:00pm - Ontario, Canada, Reframe
Peterborough International Film Festival
01/17/09 - Salem, MA, Peabody
Essex Museum
01/15/09-01/18/09 - New
Delhi, India, Tri-Continental Film Festival
01/11/09 - West Village NYC, Badi
Ko Sathi, Judson Memorial Church
12/15/08 - Kathmandu Nepal, The
Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival
12/7/08-12/14/08 - New Delhi,
India, India International Women's Film Festival
12/6/08 - Toronto,
Canada, The Female Eye Film Festival
12/5/08-12/14/08 - Warsaw,
Poland, Watch Docs Film Festival
12/3/08 and 12/10/08 - Kathmandu,
Nepal, 16 Days of Activism Film Festival
11/18/08 - 11/21/08 - Montreal, Rencontres
International Film Festival
11/17/08 - Trenton, College of
New Jersey
11/14/08 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Pravo Ljudski Human Rights Festival
11/14/08 - South
Bend, University of Notre Dame, 6:30pm & 9:30pm
11/13/08 - Philadelphia, International
House, 7:00pm
11/07/08 - Olympia,
WA, Olympia Film Festival, 5:30pm
10/25/08 - Seattle,
Film, Faith and Justice Festival, 9:45pm
10/24 - 10/28/08 - Santa
Fe Film Center
10/23/08 - Portland,
Northwest Film Center, 7:00pm
9/19/2008 - Montana State University
2008 - Buenos Aires, Human Rights
Watch Film Festival
6/2008 - New York City, Human
Rights Watch Film Festival
3/2008 - London, Human Rights
Watch Film Festival
- In Nepali with English subtitles
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Get tickets online as soon as they are available. They may be difficult to get on the day of the screening.
Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers a is an extraordinary story of six women’s courageous efforts to shape Nepal’s future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King’s crackdown on civil liberties. read more
"It gives new meaning to the words courage and resilience."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"Impressive... give[s] credence to the old feminist saw that if women were given power, they would speedily put an end to war..."
- Variety
“Intimate and engrossing, the film gives us six commitments and hopes.”