PhotoKTM6 Schedule

Festival Opening + Award of Excellence
The opening will feature a special performance directed by Anuja Ghosalkar,
collectively written by and featuring Nepali artists who participated in her recent
workshop, Everyday Leaders for Imagined Futures.

Review Sessions
*By registration only

Demounting Louis Agassiz – Artistic Renegotiation of Archive, Memory & Place
Talk by Sasha Huber (moderated by Diwas Raja Khatri)

Witness or Accomplice: Photography, Human Rights and the Question of Freedom
Talk by Prof. Siona O’ Connell (moderated by NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati)

PhotoKTM Mixer and Speed Date
*By registration only

July, Unfinished
Jaheen Faruque Amin in conversation with Sabnam Lama

Third Camera – a Film Series:
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Dir. Raoul Peck
2024 | 1h 46m | English

Slideshow – Who Does The River Belong To?
Works from the first PC Fellowship.

Southasia Incubator
(for selected participants only)

Memory is an Inaccurate Place: Dialogues Across Time, Territories, and Histories

Isadora Romero in conversation with Tanvi Mishra

When The World is Blind – Images by Palestinians
Ahmed Alaqra in conversation with yasmine eid-sabbagh

Southasia Incubator
(for selected participants only)

Review Sessions
*By registration only

Sustaining Art Ecosystems That Resist and Nurture – Part 1
Paola Farran in conversation with Jessica Lim

Sustaining Art Ecosystems That Resist and Nurture – Part 2
Chelsea Chua in conversation with Tif Ng

A Photographer’s Fifty-Year Journey in Nepal
A Slideshow and Talk with Kevin Bubriski

PhotoKTM Bhoé
Grand Newa feast and fundraiser to help keep PhotoKTM free and open to everyone.

Southasia Incubator
(for selected participants only)

Sustaining Art Ecosystems That Resist and Nurture – Part 3
Andrea Thal in conversation with Diwas Raja Khatri

We must refuse silence!
Samir Eskanda, Shahidul Alam, and Tabara Korka Ndiaye in conversation with yasmine eid-sabbagh

Southasia Incubator
(for selected participants only)

Cultural Boycott: Strategy, Impact and Principles
Workshop with Samir Eskanda

Walk-thru at NAC with Enuma Rai, Jyoti Shrestha, Karma Tshering Gurung, Manoj Bohara, Manjit Lama, Rejin Purja, Sujata Khadka, Sushila Bishwakarma

Southasia Incubator
(for selected participants only)

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Abu Ammar Is Coming
Dir. Naeem Mohaiemen
2016 | 6m | English

My Imaginary Country
Dir. Patricio Guzmán
2022 | 1h 23m | Spanish with English subtitles

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Bamako
Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako
2006 | 1h 55m | French & Bambara

In a sun-drenched courtyard in Bamako, daily life continues alongside an extraordinary courtroom drama: African citizens put international financial institutions on trial, charging them with the economic suffocation of a continent.

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Twenty Years of African Cinema
Dir. Férid Boughedir
1983 | 1h 35m | French

Recalls the first 20 years of the new auteur cinema of sub-Saharan Africa, which bears witness to an indefatigable—and still-enduring—drive for self-expression.

Third Camera – a Film Series:

The Battle of Algiers
Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
1966 | 2h 1m | Arabic & French

This masterpiece of cinema recreates the brutal struggle for independence between Algerian FLN guerrillas and French colonial forces in the 1950s, presenting a morally complex portrait of urban warfare and revolution.

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Cuba, an African Odyssey
Dir. Jihan El-Tahri
2007 | 3h 10m | French

The untold story of Cuba’s support for African revolutions, one of the Cold War’s most vigorous contests over resources and ideology.

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Amma Ariyan
[Report to Mother]
Dir. John Abraham
1986 | 1h 55m | Malayalam, with English subtitles

After a young Naxalite’s death, a group of friends travel across Kerala to inform his mother, their journey unfolding into a layered exploration of memory, violence, grief, and revolution.

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Sambizanga
Dir. Sarah Maldoror
1972 | 1h 42m | Portuguese, Kimbundu & Lingala, with English subtitles

In colonial Angola, Maria searches desperately for her husband, a revolutionary detained by the Portuguese, as she confronts the brutal realities of war and resistance.

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Reassemblage

Dir. Trinh Minh-ha
1982 | 40m | English

A radical rethinking of the ethnographic gaze, Trinh Minh-ha turns the camera toward everyday life in Senegal to question how we see, speak of, and construct the “other.”

Third Camera – a Film Series:

Leila and the Wolves

Dir. Heiny Srour
1984 | 1h 30m | Arabic

This landmark feminist film reclaims the hidden history of Arab women’s resistance through an innovative mosaic of narrative and archive, centering their crucial role in Lebanese and Palestinian liberation struggles.