Travelling Film Southasia
a Mobile festival
TFSA 2025
19 Films | 9 Countries | Screen Anywhere!
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 Screenings
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.
Government College For Women
Media Education Research Centre, Srinagar
Our director, Mitu Varma, joined staff, faculty, students and filmmakers for the screening of the following films: Abundance: Living with a Forest, Hello Guyzz, A Forgotten Summer, TransKashmir, Whispers by the River Shore
Government College For Women
SRINAGAR
FSA collaborated with the Government College for Women, Srinagar for a special screening of the following films: 6A Akash Ganga, TransKashmir and When the Pomegranates Turn Gray
Islamic University of Science and Technology
Awantipora
FSA collaborated with IUST for the second time to screen selected films and have discussions with filmmakers, students and faculty. These films were screened at the university: Abundance: Living with a Forest, Hello Guyzz, A Forgotten Summer, Whispers by the River Shore.
Mitu Varma, FSA director, was also part of a jury for select student films made by the students of the Department of Journalism and Mass Comm.
TFSA @ JDMC
Janaki Devi Memorial College
For the second time running, FSA collaborated with JDMC to screen selected films and have discussions with filmmakers and JDMC's film society, Lumiere.
The Films selected were:
Hello Guyzz, Wagging Tale, GoHomeGota, A Flaming Forest, A Forgotten Summer, Whispers by the River Shore, Sometimes even the Shore Drowns, Love Like Ours, I Found My Yellow, When Pomegranate Turn Grey
TFSA @ KREA University
Sri City
TFSA in collaboration with Krea University and Prof. Bishnu Mohapatra (at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University) screened the following films:
6-A Akash Ganga, A Flaming Forest, Abundance: Living with a Forest, Chardi-Kala, Hello Guyzz, I Found My Yellow, Mic Drop, Siege in the Air, Sometimes Even the Shore Drowns, Trans Kashmir, Wagging Tale, Whispers by the River Shore, GoHomeGOta
TFSA @ Asian College of Journalism
Asian College of Journalism, Chennai
All 19 of the TFSA '25 film package was shown to students of ACJ during the day long festival in 3 different spaces
TFSA at Peepal Grove School
Peepal Grove School, Andra Pradesh
FSA screened the following films to the students of PGS and had an interactive session with FSA director Mitu Varma.
- A Flaming Forest
- A Forgotten Summer
- Abundance: Living with a Forest
- 6-A Akash Ganga
- Cinema pe Cinema
- Love Like Ours
- Mic Drop
- Sometimes Even the Shore Drowns
- Wagging Tale
- Whispers by the River Shore
Parda Faash with TFSA
Asia Society of india Center and National Center for Performing arts
FSA collaborated with the Asia Society India Center (ASIC) to screen as part of ASIC's Parda Faash
- 6-A Akash Ganga
- Chardi Kala
- Cinema Pe Cinema
- Hello Guyzz
- Sometimes Even the Shore Drowns
- Trans Kashmir
- Wagging Tale
- Whispers by the River Shore
- #GoHomeGotha
TFSA @ Arthshila Goa
Goa
FSA screened all 19 films of the package to wrap up screenings with Arthshila at various locations around India
TFSA @ Arthshila Delhi
New Delhi
TFSA Screened all 19 films at the Arthshila, New Delhi center.
TSFA @ Arthshila Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
All 19 films were screened at the Arthshila Ahmedabad venue with a few post screening discussions.
TFSA @ Arthshila Shantiniketan
Shantiniketan, West BEngal
Film Southasia collaborated with Arthshila Shantiniketan for the second time with a month long screenings of all 19 TFSA films!
