Join Lost Origins and Director, Subhashish Panigrahi, for a SPECIAL screening of internationally celebrated documentary short, Gyani Maiya.

The Kusunda people were once a semi-nomadic hunter and gatherer community that settled in villages around the mid-western Nepalese district of Dang, near the India-Nepal border. They have long lost their native language Mihaq (Kusunda), to acculturation and other barriers to active use. The community also lost its 83-year-old elder Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda in 2020, the last known fluent Kusunda speaker.

Filmed in Kulmor India in the Dang District in 2018, this documentary is a memoir of Sen-Kusunda in her own words and a biography of her people who were forced to leave their language and cultural identity. Kusunda is being revived by Kamala Sen Khatri, Sen-Kusunda’s younger sister, and Uday Raj Aaley, a local researcher who is the key collaborator for this film.

Popcorn, Wine, Beer, & Soda will be available by donation and we’ll have Ice Cream specials from Mount Dessert Island Ice Cream located below the gallery.