![]() ![]() But then both her parents died, when she was nine years old. As a Dalit girl, in a patriarchal country facing caste-based and sex discrimination, the odds were already stacked against her. Nepali was born into a poor Dalit family (the lowest caste, formerly known as “untouchables”) in a remote village in western Nepal. It’s a story of poverty and struggle – but also second chances. ![]() I am Belmaya charts the past 14 years of Nepali’s life. I thought, I will have better life.”įifteen years later, the 29-year-old single mother is an award-winning film-maker, with a documentary she co-directed about her life released in cinemas and on-demand from Friday. “When I touched the camera for the first time I was like, ‘what is this box?’ I was so curious,” she says. The British film-maker Sue Carpenter had come to Pokhara, a tourist city in central Nepal, to run a photography project with disadvantaged girls living in an institution. Belmaya Nepali’s life changed for ever when, at 14, she was given a camera.
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