NEPAL FOREVER

Global revolution is coming – sooner than we think if Sergey and his assistant get their way. The two men are members of a small party, based in St. Petersburg, that broke away from the old Communist Party. The new splinter party might be described as radically red, backwards-looking, and daft. To the existing left-wing theories of Marxism-Lenism and Maoism, Sergey and his comrades have added the doctrine of Dadaism. With outlandish actions and outfits they spare no effort to rouse the attention their cause deserves. Sergey, the head and mind of the group, likes to give long lectures. Viktor sees himself as the belly, heart and soul, and sings with gusto. The two Comintern clowns from Petersburg – the Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of the Internationale – set off on a crazy trip to Nepal, where a historic mission awaits. It is not just Sergey’s weakness for online-dating sites and Viktor’s more than healthy appetite for foot that is hampering the revolutionary process: a fraternal dispute has broken out between Nepal’s two main communist parties. Will the Russian emissaries succeed in reconciling the embittered rivals? Perhaps one fact about NEPAL FOREVER, a highly amusing documentary, is more stunning than any of the others: nothing, not even the tiniest detail, was made up.
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ALIONA POLUNINA
Born 1975 in Tuapse, Russia.
She studied painting and worked for lifestyle magazines prior to taking up documentary filmmaking. Graduated in screenwriting and directing from VGIK Moscow in 2004. Her documentaries have screened at numerous festivals and won several awards.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
2004 / DA, SMERT / YES, DEATH (doc)
2006 / SVYATOYE MESTO / SAINT PLACE (doc)
2007 / FESTIWAL / FESTIVAL (doc)
2007 / ZHENSHCHINY SVERCHU / WOMEN ABOVE (doc)
2008 / VALLANKUMOUS, JOTA EI TULLUT / THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN’T (doc)
2013 / NEPAL FOREVER (doc)