DUST

DUST [CHHAARO]
Created by Deepak Tolange
Run time: 50 min
Production country: Nepal, Germany
Production year: 2016
 
LOG LINE
CHHAARO [DUST] is an ethnographic film about children working in a brick factory in Nepal.
 
SYNOPSIS
Every year during winter thousands of Nepalese and Indians migrate to various parts of Nepal to work in brick factories. Many of these laborers are children who drop out of school, engage in hard labor, and never return back to school. Dust is an ethnographic film about children working in a brick factory in Nepal. It is an attempt to find the perspectives of children working in brick kiln areas in Nepal about their life, work, and education.

CHHAARO [DUST] is created as a part of a written thesis, ‘Seasonal Migration: Children Working in a Brick Factory in Nepal’.
 
Motivational Program at Brick Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o71Qm26zJeM&t=9s
A project initiated to provide immediate basic support to children working in the brick factory.

AWARDS
‘Best Film for Kids’ in Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology film festival in Estonia, ‘Urban Spree Award’ in Boddinale Film festival in Germany, ‘Harry Watt bursary award’ for the ‘young filmmaker’ in RAI Film Festival in UK, and ‘Best Non-fiction film’ in Nepal Human Rights Film Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal

DUST IN FESTIVALS

  • Parnu Film Festival, Estonia
  • RAI, Bristol, UK
  • Anthropofest, Prague, Cheque Republic
  • Days of Ethnographic film (DEF), Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • FIFEQ, Montreal and Quebec, Canada
  • Toronto Nepali Film Festival (TNFF), Toronto, Canada
  • Ethnokino, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Nepal America Film Festival, USA
  • GIEFF, German International Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany
  • KRATOVO, Mecedonia
  • VERZIO, Budapest, Hungary
  • International Festival of Ethnological Films, Serbia
  • 6th Boddinale, Berlin, Germany
  • 1st Global University Film Awards, Hong Kong
  • ETNOFILm, 10th ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL in Rovnij, Croatia
  • Nepal Human Rights Film Festival, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Eyes and Lenses XIII, Poland
  • Kassel University, Germany