The Red Suitcase
The Red Suitcase
Director: Fidel Devkota
Country: Nepal, Sri Lanka
German Premiere
2023 | 87 min. | Nepali
Subtitles: English, German
FSK | Nicht geprüft / No clearance (18+)
Cast_ Saugat Malla, Bipin Karki, Prabin Khatiwada, Shristi Shrestha Screenplay_ Fidel Devkota Camera_ Sushan Prajapati Producer_ Ram Krishna Pokharel, Shova Thapa, Fidel Devkota Rights_ Reason8
Haunting and excitingly different. With poignant vigor, the Nepali director Fidel Devkota paints a mystical portrait of his homeland in crisis.
A courier leaves the Kathmandu airport to drive a foreign shipment to a remote mountain village. On the way, he hears a strange story on the radio about a man who looks into his empty red suitcase and suddenly vanishes. Simultaneously, on a country road, a lone figure slowly makes his way towards the same mountain village, carrying a small red suitcase. - Through its unusual storytelling and wonderfully haunting atmosphere, ›The Red Suitcase‹ offers the viewer profound insight into another culture and challenges a Westernized understanding of the world. Made up of carefully composed static shots and embedded in the fog-shrouded landscape of Nepal, the film tells of the price of globalization and exerts a power that is as affecting as it is mystical.
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- Sold outMonday 20.11.202321:00with GuestsHeidelbergHDKarlstorkino
- AvailableTuesday 21.11.202315:00with GuestsMannheimMAAtlantis
- Sold outWednesday 22.11.202318:00with GuestsHeidelbergHDGloria
- AvailableSaturday 25.11.202314:30with GuestsMannheimMAAtlantis