Nepalese Film series – Sugup (part of Winter World in a Tent)


October 29, 2024
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When:
November 23, 2024 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
2024-11-23T14:30:00+00:00
2024-11-23T16:30:00+00:00
Where:
Dover Museum
Market Square
Dover
CT16 1PH
Cost:
Free

Nepalese Film series:

Sugup – Sat Nov 23rd – 2.30-4.30pm

Talk – 1.30pm

The new Nepali/Limbu cultural movie “SUGUP” (Soo-Goop) is a movie that portrays the beliefs and rituals of Yakthung Limbu people during a woman’s pregnancy and childbirth time. The movie explores Limbu people’s lifestyle in their homeland, their beliefs derived from their spiritual sacred text called MUNDHUM (Moon-Dhoom) in modern day village setting, assimilated well with the mainstream Nepali culture along with their own Yakthung culture.

The movie mainly focuses on the rituals that are performed by the family when a family member is pregnant, and also focuses on the hardened belief of Yakthung Limbu people that ignoring rituals will bring omen to the mother and baby inside her womb.

The term SUGUP itself is a fatal fate of a mother and/or the baby she is carrying in her womb due to the shunning of mandatory rituals. SUGUP tries to portray many other aspects of Limbu people and their cultural spectrum, such as their traditional dances, local markets, foods, beverages, sacred rituals etc.

The movie contains both Khas Nepali language and Yakthung Paan (Limbu Language) with English subtitles.