Kathmandu Lullaby

Dec 7, 2011

1h 44m

★ 5.9

A teacher, her pupils and life's greatest lesson of all

Overview

Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a nefarious educational system, but a journey of self-discovery as well.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Afrodita Audiovisual, A.I.E.

Canal+ España

Es.Docu

The Kraken Films

Media Films

TV3

TVE

ICEC

Kathmandu Lullaby Trailers

Cast

Laia

Verónica Echegui

Sharmila

Saumyata Bhattarai

Tsering

Norbu Tsering Gurung

Riga

Jampa Kalsang Tamang

Pemba

Bikram Pariyar

Kushila

Muna Thami

Bimala

Sangita Tamang

Dani

Aleix Rengel

Madre de Laia

Lluïsa Castell

Monja

Assun Planas

Partera

Montserrat Alcoverro

Padre de Laia

Ferran Lahoz

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