{"id":430269,"date":"2026-05-23T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=430269"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:47:58","slug":"nepals-presence-at-cannes-film-festival-a-matter-of-pride-says-acting-mayor-dangol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/05\/23\/430269.html","title":{"rendered":"Nepal&#8217;s presence at Cannes Film Festival a matter of pride, says Acting Mayor Dangol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Acting Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City Sunita Dangol has said that Nepal&#8217;s presence at the Cannes Film Festival this year was a proud moment for the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Sunita-Dangol-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-430270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Sunita-Dangol-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Sunita-Dangol-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Sunita-Dangol-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Sunita-Dangol-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Sunita-Dangol.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Courtesy: Kathmandu Metropolitan City\/Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to media persons at Tribhuvan International Airport today upon returning home after participating in the festival, she said that the Nepali film &#8216;Elephant in the Fog (Tiniharu)&#8217; directed by Avinash Bikram Shah won the Jury Prize in the &#8216;Un Certain Regard&#8217; category at the festival, which further elevated the stature of the Nepali film and creative industry and arts sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The film received a standing ovation for seven minutes, and all the entire audience was quite emotional following the screening of the film,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acting Mayor also said it was a good opportunity to introduce the film festival organised by KMC as an international stage through the Cannes Festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dangol said, &#8220;We want to use international knowledge, skills and experience and bring about balanced development of the sector related to the creative industry through the film festival.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dangol, who left for France on Sunday at the invitation of David Lisnard, Mayor of Cannes, France, has invited Lisnard to participate in the Kathmandu Film Festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be noted that both Cannes and Kathmandu are member cities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) \u2018Creative Cities\u2019 film category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acting Mayor also said it was a good opportunity to introduce the film festival organised by KMC as an international stage through the Cannes Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":430270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-430269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430275,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430269\/revisions\/430275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430269"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=430269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}