Travelling Film Southasia
a Mobile festival
TFSA 2025
19 Films | 6 Countries | Screen Anywere!
Travelling Film Southasia (TFSA) started with the first Film Southasia festival held in Kathmandu in September 1997. Since then, following each biennial ‘mother festival’, a selection of films is packaged and tours regionally and globally. Over the years the TFSA package has been screened in halls, cultural centres, classrooms and museums around the world. This mobile campaign to promote and popularise Southasian documentaries stops at more than 20 international venues between the parent FSA festivals that are held every two years in Kathmandu.
TFSA’25 Package
Film Southasia has selected 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years to create the Traveling Film Southasia 2025 (TFSA’25) package. The films have been selected from the 47 documentaries screened at FSA’24, held in Kathmandu from November 21th to 24th, 2024.
TFSA 2025 encapsulates the flavour of the Subcontinent with films from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Myanmar. The package includes the award winners at FSA 2024 as well as other films selected to showcase the variety, treatment and intensity that marks the world of Southasian documentaries. The running time for the entire package is approximately 12 hours and can be screened easily over 3 days with discussions.
Hashtagged People’s Movement Overturns Regime Sri Lanka
Length: 51 min
Country: Sri Lanka
Language: English
Director: Sulochana Peiris
Can a musician exist without an audience?
Length: 80 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/English
Director: Nirmal Chander
Saving the Tiger: The Soliga Way
Length: 48 min
Country: India
Language: Kannada
Director: Satya Ambasta, Salman Javeed, Vivek Sangwan
On Ageing, Loss, Love and Longing
Length: 24 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/English
Director: Aliya Z S, Fatima Rahman, Isha Singh, Minha Fathima, Shreya Mishra
Indigenous Foragers Invigorate Sustainable Practices India
Length: 22 min
Country: India
Language: Lotha Naga
Director: Dolly Kikon
Optimism, Resilience, Steer Farmers to Make History
Length: 95 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/Punjabi
Director: Prateek Shekhar
An Ode to Single-Screen Cinema Theatres
Length: 62 minan
Country: India
Language: Hindi/English/Tamil
Director: Vani Subramanian
Social Media Influencer in Small Town Bengal
Length: 24 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/Bengali/English
Director: Samiksha Mathur
Two Women and a Cat Learning to be Family
Length: 75 min
Country: Myanmar
Language: Burmese
Director: Shin Thandar
Unveiling Ritwik Ghatafi’s Setting for Ajantrik
Length: 48 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Director: Meghnath
Interfaith Couple’s Love Triumphs All Odds Myanmar
Length: 18 min
Country: Myanmar
Language: Burmese/English
Director: Yan Paing Htun
Bundelkhandi Rapper’s Determination to Go Global
Length: 27 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/Bundelkhandi
Director: Kallol Mukherjee
Kashmiri Women Piece Together Life Amidst Communication Blockades
Length: 13 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/Kashimiri/English/Urdu
Director: Muntaha Amin
Cinematic Ode to Marine Life on Intertidal Mudflats
Length: 17 min
Country: Pakistan
Language: Urdu
Director: Mahera Omar
Kashmir Transgender Movement for Human Rights
Length: 61 min
Country: India
Language: English/Kashmiri/Urdu
Director: Surbhi Dewan, SA Hanan
Canine Friends Restore Man’s Faith in Life
Length: 23 min
Country: Nepal
Language: Nepali
Director: Samagra Shah
Resilience and Continuity of Cultural Memory
Length: 37 min
Country: India
Language: Urdu
Director: Thoufeeq K, Khurram Muraad
Encroaching River Sweeps Away Family Fortunes Bangladesh
Length: 19 min
Country: India
Language: Bangladesh
Director: Samiur Rahman
Encroaching River Sweeps Away Family Fortunes Bangladesh
Length: 65 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/English/Marathi
Director: Akshay Shah