Premieres:

62nd Berlin International Film Festival 2012

Montreal World Film Festival 2012

Mill Valley Film Festival 2012

Opening film, New York Museum of Modern Art MoMA’s Conetmpory Asian Cinema Series 2013

All aboard the bus to Kathmandu! As if the mountain terrain weren’t challenging enough, our bus is repeatedly stopped by bandhs—spontaneous civil disobedience blockades—a frequent phenomenon since the end of the civil war. Meanwhile, a young woman can’t decide between her boyfriend and the fiancé arriving to marry her; a gay man hopes to reunite with his estranged lover; a soldier rushes to his wife in time to try out a fertility potion he’s swallowed (not knowing she’s kept some secrets from him); and the bus driver knows the woman he loves may be forced back into prostitution if he doesn’t show up with money for her sick child.

Co-producer: Louverture Films, New York

World Sales: The Film Sales Crop, New York Swiss Distributor: Trigon Films

"... the on-location lensing of the bus journey, capturing rarely seen landscapes, architecture and real people, exerts a fascination of its own"

– Alissa Simon, Variety

“Highway (2012), the feature debut of Nepali filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar, marks the rise of a fresh new cinematic vision for the Himalayan nation.” 

– La Frances Hui, Asia Society