Panchayat

Directed by Shivam Adhikari

With Neeta Dhungana, Saroj Khanal, Rupa Rana, Ganesh Giri and Jahanwi Basnet

A film that revolves around a girl who confronts social taboos of the Chhaupadi tradition, which prohibits Hindu women and girls from participating in normal family activities while menstruating as they are considered “impure”. Set in the seventies, the film’s title refers to Nepal’s Panchayat system of self-rule, which was abolished in 1990.