
Most Dangerous Ways To School: Nepal & India
Two children, two perilous commutes. Kritika is 11 and lives in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal with her mother and grandparents while her father works in Dubai; each morning she leads a group of younger village children across steep paths, rope bridges, and waterfalls to reach their school. In India, 13-year-old Devi lives in an isolated village on the Bay of Bengal, in a country where sons are still valued over daughters, and walks more than an hour through rice fields, forests, and muddy water just to attend class. The film follows both girls with handheld camera through their villages and along their routes, showing the physical risk built into a routine as ordinary as going to school. Family interviews fill in the economic pressures behind each journey, from a father working abroad to the quiet expectation that a daughter's education matters less than a son's. Two portraits of everyday endurance, shot on location.