Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo

Where was it filmed?

Shooting: 
2011
Release: 
2011
Type: 
Feature Film
Director: 
Icíar Bollaín
Production Co.: 
Media Films, Es.docu, The Kraken Films AIE, Afrodita Audiovisual AIE
Country: 
Spain
Actors: 
Verónica Echegui, Sumyata Battarai, Norbu Tsering Gurung
Synopsis: 

At the beginning of the 90's, Laia, a young Catalan teacher, moves to Katmandu as a volunteer in a local school. Soon she will find out a extremely poor and a devastating educative scene that also leaves out the more needed. After contracting, much to her regret, a convenience marriage to legalize her status, Laia embarks on an ambitious and personal educational project in the slums of Katmandu. Immediately, she faces the evidence that she can¿t do it alone. But she also finds a beautiful and unexpected present: falling in love with the unknown man she has married to. By the hand of her friend and young teacher Sharmila, Laia starts a journey that will bring her to the bottom of the Nepalese society and to the bottom of herself.

Shot in: Barcelona, Manlleu, Berguedà, Sabadell.

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