{
  "id": 16814010,
  "title": "Ancestral Memory Meets AI in Himalayan Drama ‘Shirjara: Song of Grandmother’ at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/ancestral-memory-meets-ai-in-himalayan-drama-shirjara-song-of",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-27T23:33:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/markets-festivals/ancestral-memory-ai-nepali-drama-shirjara-tokyo-market-1236932531/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Himalayan drama that sets a grandmother’s stories against the rise of artificial intelligence is aiming for a Cannes premiere next year. Director Bikash Subedi’s Nepali feature “Shirjara: Song of Grandmother” has wrapped principal photography and is at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market to raise its last $44,000. Described as a speculative drama, the film moves […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}