Himalaya (film)
Himalaya/ Caravan is a 1999 film directed by Éric Valli and was funded through France- based corporations.
It was the first Nepalese film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at the 72nd Academy Awards.
The film is a narrative on the both traditions and the impermanent nature of human struggle to retain and express power in the face of the gods.
The gods triumph is the call that echoes at the end of the film and expresses the balancing of karmic destinies.
The extreme environment of the Himalayas is magnificently contrasted to the delicacy of humanity and the beauty of Tibetan culture.
The film depicts not only the life style of the upper Dolpo people of the mid western uphills of Nepal but also their traditional customs, for example celestial burial.
Himalaya was shot in widescreen over nine months on location in a region that can only be reached on foot, with all but two characters played by real chiefs, lamas and local villagers.
Director Éric Valli has lived in Nepal since 1983 and is also a photographer and author.
His work is regularly published in National Geographic Magazine, GEO magazine and Life magazines.
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Éric Valli
Éric Valli( born 1952, in Dijon, France) is a French photographer and film director.
Valli specializes in mountain scenery and is an expert on the Himalaya Mountains, and in 1999 directed the adventure film" Caravan" about survival in the Himalayas starring Thinle Lhondup which became the first Nepalese film to be nominated for a Best Foreign Film Award at the Oscars.
Valli has also shot a documentary with Diane Summers on the Honey hunters of Nepal documenting honey hunting by the Gurung tribesmen of west- central Nepal.
In it, they enter the jungle in search of wild honey where they use indigenous tools under precarious conditions to collect honey.
Valli has received 3 World Press Awards for his work" Chasseurs de Miel"( 1988)," Chasseurs des Ténèbres"( 1991) and" Les enfants de la poussière"( 1991).

Question: Are both director of film Armageddon (1998 Film) and director of film Himalaya (Film) from the same country?
Answer: no