Bombay Talkies: the Documentary
For a city known for its flashy sensationalism, Bombay’s everyday stories seem to get regularly swept away. Luckily, some of these are being caught by documentary filmmakers. In the hours immediately...
View ArticleTruth and the Indian Documentary
By allowing common people to speak for themselves, documentary filmmakers in the Subcontinent have added a whole new weapon to their political arsenal. The presence of the term document in the word...
View ArticleOfficial Arbiters
In an attempt to ‘clean up’ or ‘maintain law and order’, governments across Southasia are cracking down on films. Because of their mass appeal and easy accessibility, feature films have been bearing...
View ArticleIn The Time Of Scarcity
In the veranda of the large courtyard house in Jaffna sat the 84-year-old Mrs Subramanium, who has worked as a secretary at Uthayan, Jaffna’s most popular newspaper, for the past 17 years. I had...
View ArticleFilm Southasia Presents ‘Satyajit Ray: Diversity of Vision’
21-25 February 2011 Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka Monday, February 21, 2011 Theme: ‘Successful’ Bengali Babus 4PM Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971), 113’ 6:30 PM Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in...
View ArticleNights of Song and Fulfillment
The concert finishes at 5 am on the fifth night (it is already morning) in Pachaur, and we get straight into the buses to go to the next destination, Neemaj, purportedly a six-hour drive away. But...
View ArticleBoundless Autonomy
On March 9, even cynics had to admit that Indian democracy is a functioning one, when Justice S Muralidhar of the Delhi High Court, laid down a far-reaching judgement on censorship with regard to the...
View ArticleFSA Retrospective in Colombo
15 extraordinary non-fiction films selected from past seven editions of Film Southasia. FSA Retrospective celebrating 15 years of Film Southasia, opens in Colombo from today! Programme schedule...
View ArticleTravelling Film Southasia in India
29 AUGUST – 1 SEPTEMBER, 2012 INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE Lodhi Estate, New Delhi SCREENING SCHEDULE: WEDNESDAY, 29TH AUGUST 6.30 PM KEROSENE Sri Lanka; 16 min; 2011; English & with subtitles...
View ArticleChina Exposé – A Showcase of Independent Documentary Films
China is undergoing the fastest economic growth and social transformation known in human history. Behind the fanfare surrounding the country’s growing stature are untold stories of struggle. With the...
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Afghan Eyes: Films from Afghanistan
FSA has two special curated packages this year. The first, from Ahmedabad-based under-30 film festival Alpavirama was shown at a special preview session at Yala Maya Kendra at Patan Dhoka on Monday...
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Challenging the sighted what it means to see
Friends from Rotary Club, Rotary E-Club and Nepal Association for Blind Welfare attending the screening of Algorithms. Day two kicked off with “Algorithms”, a ninety-minute documentary on the world of...
View ArticleWhy Poverty?
The final session of day one presented a series of short films curated as “Why Poverty”—some very short at under a minute, and others around five minutes long. All were produced with the assistance of...
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How do we perceive, accept and project the idea of Southasia?
This panel discussion, organised by Himal Southasian magazine and FSA, featured Kanak Mani Dixit, journalist Sadanand Menon, Mallika Shakya from South Asian University, and Shahidul Alam, pondering...
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Friday Afternoon
You can’t always be expected to know what you don’t know, and one of the most important things about documentary films is to let you into worlds that you didn’t know existed. “The Human Factor” tells...
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Invitation: Impromptu panel discussion on CENSORSHIP
Film Southasia 2013 invites you to a panel discussion on CENSORSHIP with editor of Nepali Times Kunda Dixit, journalist Naryan Wagle, photographer and activist from Bangladesh Shahidul Alam and film...
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Hall 1, Day 3
Day 3 of FSA ’13, on a rainy Kathmandu Saturday ideal for curling up with a movie, presented more superb documentary amid the buzz surrounding No Fire Zone, a powerful documentary on the atrocities...
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FSA panel discussion challenges censorship
Photo: Shikhar Bhattarai Film Southasia 2013 delivered a swift rebuke to the Sri Lankan government’s attempted censorship by organizing a panel on how freedom of expression is restricted in Southasia....
View ArticleInterfacing humans and ecology on screen
Three began with short films on both screens, including two that focus on ecological issues and how humans relate to them. Gaur in My Garden provided a glimpse of increasing interactions between humans...
View ArticleFilming the ‘war without witness’
As planned, Film Southasia organisers went ahead with screenings of three Sri Lankan films in spite of pressure from the Sri Lankan government. Hundreds of people packed the hall at Yala Mala Kendra...
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