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.
Amid the Villus
46 min | 2021 | Sri Lanka | Tamil
DIRECTOR: SUMATHY SIVMOHAN
Understanding place as history, memory, joy, adversity and struggle
Gay India Matrimony
67 min | 2019 | India | Bengali
DIRECTOR: DEBALINA
Three characters in search of a same-sex spouse
Ghar Ka Pata
67 min | 2020 | India | Hindi/Kashmiri
DIRECTOR: MADHULIKA JALALI
Of longing, transience and memory – the story of a young Kashmiri Pandit woman finding her way home…
Gurkha Girl
35 min | 2021 | Nepal | Nepali
DIRECTOR: BISHAL ROKKA MAGAR
A young woman’s quest for recruitment in the British Gurkha regiment
Gaine
25 min | 2019 | Nepal | Nepali
DIRECTOR: PRADEEP DHAKAL
The life of a Gaine – a musical journalist of old in Nepal
The Heartbroken Lover
10 min | 2021 | India | Hindi
DIRECTOR: RIDHIMA SHARMA
Tea and sympathy for heartbroken lovers at the innovative neighbourhood chaiwallah
Highways of Life
52 min | 2020 | India | Manipuri
DIRECTOR: AMAR MAIBAM
Tracking the high octane lives of Manipur’s highway truckers
Iqraar-naama
55 min | 2021 | India |
Hindi/Panjabi/Urdu
DIRECTOR: PRIYANAK CHHABRA
A story of love and loss – an archive of “Home” in a partitioned subcontinent
Longing
90 min | 2021 | India | English/Hindi/Panjabi/Urdu
DIRECTOR: BANI SINGH
Quest for a lost homeland
Moon on the Man
75 min | 2021 | India | Hindi/English
DIRECTOR: PRINCE SHAH
An observational and exploratory foray into reality, perception and choices
Strike with the Beat
25 min | 2021 | Myanmar | Buremes
DIRECTOR: SAI KYAW KHAING
Street protests as they happened during the February 1 Myanmar coup
The Casteless Collective – Prologue
90 min | 2021 | India | Tamil/English
DIRECTOR: MONESH
Music breaks barriers of caste and class in performances by a revolutionary band
The secret life
13 min | 2020 | Pakistan | Urdu
DIRECTOR: NADEEM
A glimpse into the lives of indigenous people in the Hunza valley of Pakistan
This Stained Dawn
89 min | 2021 | Pakistan | Urdu
DIRECTOR: ANAM ABBAS
Karachi’s young feminists organize a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right.
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