Kathmandu Lullaby

A teacher, her pupils and life's greatest lesson of all

Directed by Icíar Bollaín

Produced by Afrodita Audiovisual, A.I.E., Canal+ España

A character-driven drama about a Spanish teacher's transformative journey in 1990s Nepal, balancing intimate human connection against systemic poverty and personal struggle.

Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a nefarious educational system, but a journey of self-discovery as well.