Kathmandu, April 27 -- Yalamaya Kendra is hosting a documentary screening as part of its ongoing 'Plurality of Nature, Legal Activism, and Peace in the Anthropocene' event series today at Patan Dhoka. The session will feature two 25-minute documentaries-'Marshyangdi Wile Ri'iba' (Nepal) and 'Aty Seikuinduwa' (Colombia), produced as part of the European Research Council-RIVERS project.

These films explore the pressing question of how non-human entities, such as rivers, forests, and other natural elements, can be incorporated into legal and political frameworks. They highlight the intersections of Indigenous knowledge systems and state-driven legal structures, examining how current legal systems often fail to recognise the agency of the na...