Traveling Film Southasia

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’22 Package

Film Southasia has selected 14 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years to create the Travelling Film Southasia 2022 (TFSA’22) package. The films have been selected from the 65 documentaries screened at FSA’22, held in Kathmandu from April 21th to 24th, 2022.

TFSA 2020 encapsulates the flavour of the Subcontinent with films from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Myanmar. The package includes the award winners at FSA 2022 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 and a half hours and can be screened easily over two days with discussions.

DIRECTOR: SUMATHY SIVMOHAN

Understanding place as history, memory, joy, adversity and struggle

DIRECTOR: DEBALINA

Three characters in search of a same-sex spouse

DIRECTOR: MADHULIKA JALALI

Of longing, transience and memory – the story of a young Kashmiri Pandit woman finding her way home…

DIRECTOR: BISHAL ROKKA MAGAR

A young woman’s quest for recruitment in the British Gurkha regiment

DIRECTOR: PRADEEP DHAKAL

The life of a Gaine – a musical journalist of old in Nepal

DIRECTOR: RIDHIMA SHARMA

Tea and sympathy for heartbroken lovers at the innovative neighbourhood chaiwallah

DIRECTOR: AMAR MAIBAM

Tracking the high octane lives of Manipur’s highway truckers

DIRECTOR: PRIYANAK CHHABRA

A story of love and loss – an archive of “Home” in a partitioned subcontinent

DIRECTOR: BANI SINGH

Quest for a lost homeland

DIRECTOR: PRINCE SHAH

An observational and exploratory foray into reality, perception and choices

DIRECTOR: SAI KYAW KHAING

Street protests as they happened during the February 1 Myanmar coup

DIRECTOR: MONESH

Music breaks barriers of caste and class in performances by a revolutionary band

DIRECTOR: NADEEM

A glimpse into the lives of indigenous people in the Hunza valley of Pakistan

DIRECTOR: ANAM ABBAS

Karachi’s young feminists organize a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right.