THE SARI SOLDIERS

This film has received 4 awards

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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Trailer

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.”

- Stanley Kauffman, The New Republic