Have You Seen My Gods

Amitabh Joshi

2025 / 60 minutes
Nepal, United States, United States / Nepal, United States, United States
English and Nepali with English Subtitles

Amitabh sets out to locate the stolen Gods of Kathmandu, fulfilling his grandmother's final wish. Sparked by his grandmother’s ailing health, a filmmaker returns to Kathmandu, a city of vanished gods and fading rituals. When the Laxmi Narayan statue, stolen in the 1980s, resurfaces in a U.S. museum, its repatriation led by local activists becomes a path he follows through ritual, shrines, and the diaspora. Featuring rare archival footage of Kathmandu from the 1950s and a quiet investigative thread that uncovers the identity of the art collector who acquired the statue, the film becomes a lyrical elegy and a quiet act of resistance against colonial theft and cultural erasure.