The 13th edition of Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KiMFF) concluded on December 14 at Kumari Hall, Kamal Pokhari. The five-day-

festival closed with the screening of Tiger for Breakfast, a portrait of Boris Lissanevitch, a Russian renaissance man in Nepal.

The mountain film festival covered a spectrum of documentaries, fiction, adventure cinema, experimental shorts, anthropological narratives and animation from the international scene and Nepal Panorama section.

Under the Seismic Shift-Short Film Competition, After the Quake, directed by Aayush Niroula won the top prize. Rising from the Epicenter, directed by Pradip Pokherel won second prize while Aditya Khadka’s Dhartiputra won third prize.

The top prize worth US$ 1500, under the International film category, was won by Tashi and the Monk, a moving account of one man’s determination to give the most vulnerable children of society a loving home and family. Jurek won the second prize while Plesn Pasterza (Shepherd’s Song) took the third prize, worth US$ 1000 and 500 respectively.  Kamaro (A Slave) won Best Fiction and Bhagyale Bachekaharu (Nepal Earthquake: Heroes, Survivors and Miracles) won the Best Documentary title.

More than eighty films from 25 countries were screened back-to-back in the festival which took place from December 10-14. The film festival was organised by Himal Association.