The films that were chosen for screening were all winners, in various categories, in the main KIMFF event, which was held in Kathmandu last year: Sunakali, Pawan, Punte ko Pangro and Journey to Yarsa. These films will also be played at a similar KIMFF fest in Macau on Monday.

Every year, for the last 12 years, KIMFF’s organisers have sifted through hundreds of documentaries and movies and shown the most promising entries at their festivals. The Travelling KIMFF show usually selects a clutch of movies and screens them in various parts of Nepal.

Basanta Thapa, the chairman of the festival’s organising committee, said the Hong Kong show was organised to allow Nepali documentaries to find a wider audience abroad. According to Dambar Krishna Shrestha, an organiser of the event, there have been requests for similar KIMFF screenings in other countries too.