Travelling Film Southasia
a Mobile festival
TFSA 2023
14 Films | 7 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’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.
Understanding place as history, memory, joy, adversity and struggle
Year: 2021
Length: 46 min
Country: Sri Lanka
Language: Tamil
Director: Sumathy Sivamohan
The life of a Gaine – a musical journalist of old in Nepal
Year: 2019
Length: 25 min
Country: Nepal
Language: Nepali
Director: Pradeep Dhakal
Three characters in search of a same-sex spouse
Year: 2019
Length: 67 min
Country: India
Language: Bengali
Director: Debalina
Of longing, transience and memory – the story of a young Kashmiri Pandit woman finding her way home…
Year: 2020
Length: 67 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/Kashmiri/English
Director: Madhulika Jalali
A young woman’s quest for recruitment in the British Gurkha regiment
Year: 2021
Length: 35 min
Country: Nepal
Language: Nepali
Director: Bishal Rokka Magar
Tracking the high octane lives of Manipur’s highway truckers
Year: 2020
Length: 52 min
Country: India
Language: Manipuri
Director: Amar Maibam
A story of love and loss – an archive of “Home” in a partitioned subcontinent
Year: 2021
Length: 55 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu
Director: Priyanka Chhabra
Quest for a lost homeland
Year: 2021
Length: 75 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/English/Punjabi/Urdu
Director: Bani Singh
An observational and exploratory foray into reality, perception and choices
Year: 2021
Length: 75 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi/English
Director: Prince Shah
Street protests as they happened during the February 1 Myanmar coup
Year: 2021
Length: 25 min
Country: Myanmar
Language: Burmese
Director: Sai Kyaw Khaing
Music breaks barriers of caste and class in performances by a revolutionary band
Year: 2021
Length: 90 min
Country: India
Language: Tamil/English
Director: Monesh
Tea and sympathy for heartbroken lovers at the innovative neighbourhood chaiwallah
Year: 2021
Length: 10 min
Country: India
Language: Hindi
Director: Ridhima Sharma
A glimpse into the lives of indigenous people in the Hunza valley of Gilgit Balistan
Year: 2020
Length: 13 min
Country: Pakistan
Language: Urdu
Director: Nadeem
Karachi’s young feminists organize a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right.
Year: 2021
Length: 89 min
Country: Pakistan
Language: Urdu
Director: Anam Abbas