‘Kathmandu: A Tale of Toils of a Sinking Civilization’ is a Cause-focused documentary, which‘Heritage Movies-Nepal’ had made in collaboration with the Heritage & Tourism Department of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) in 2022. The 61-minute documentary—anoutcome of a two-year long rigorous research—had dwelled on how the Kathmandu Valley—home to the internationally-acclaimed Newah

Civilization and UNESCO’s 7 World Heritage Sites—is gradually sinking, both physically and culturally, owing to chaotic urbanization and the subsequent extraction of underground water and the deliberate destruction of its precious tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The documentary also showed how the Valley as well as its rich cultural heritage and the six million people that the bowl-shaped Valley is giving shelter to can be saved by adopting a few pro-people measures by the concerned authorities.Dubbed in Nepali with English subtitles, itwas successful in creating public opinion on the crucial issue as well as building up more positive pressures on the decision-makers (politicians and bureaucrats).