Suntali premiered at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in October 2014 on the Window on Asian Cinema category.

[1][2] Abhimanyu Dixit of The Kathmandu Post wrote, "Dhungana proved that he was a proficient maker that too in his debut film".

[4] Niranjan Kunwar of The Record wrote "Suntali is a simple, yet beautiful film.

[5] The staff of Onlinekhabar wrote, "True to its form, Suntali combined these two to a certain degree of success.

But the audience couldn't warm up to this as most failed to recognise the clever juxtaposition of these forms".