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Himalayan Film Festival, London

PANI is showing at the Himalayan Film Festival in School of Oriental and African Studies, London on October 13. Please go if you can! www.himalayanfilmfestival.co.uk/ Saturday Films (13th Oct) The Living of Jogimara 7pm A film about 17 young men from Jogimara village in Dhading district who were killed by security forces while they were building an airport in Kalikot. [Dir. Mohan Mainali, 38mins] The Living of Jogimara - The Wait Continues 7:50pm This is the follow up to the first film to bring us up to date with what has happened in the same small village in Dhading. [Dir. Mohan Mainali, 14mins] Operation free voice 8:10pm Hasta Gurung’s documentary is a chronology of the crackdown on the media after the February 2005 military coup by the king. Overnight, newsrooms were turned into barracks, there was direct censorship and FM stations were not allowed to broadcast news. Operation Free Voice documents the stories of the journalists in the frontlines, how they struggled to uphold their