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]]>The five-day FSA 2017 festival being celebrated with the theme ‘Documentary Bears Witness’, is set to screen a total of 63 films selected from more than 300 submissions, the highest number of films being screened in the festival’s history.
The films to be screened at the festival include documentaries on current affairs that portray the public life and living in the region.
“South Asia is going through hard times and the documentaries we have curated for the festival reflect the human condition of the region,” says Kanak Mani Dixit, Chair of FSA, speaking at a press meet organized a day before the festival opening on November 02, 2017.
According to FSA Director Mitu Varma, “The audience also has a unique opportunity of viewing 12 Documentaries of Dissent, which have been banned or censored in other parts of South Asia.”
Pointing out at the functioning of film censorship across South Asia, Varma claimed that this festival reflects the courage of filmmakers in revealing truth through such films in the festival.
Mani Dixit and Mitu Varma said Kathmandu has the best audience for non-fiction films in South Asia and the organizers have also expressed their willingness to organize rescreening in line with the demand.
The festival kickstarted on November 02, 2017 at Yala Maya Kendra with the screening of Student Films and Documentaries of Dissent, along with a masterclass by the festival Chief Guest Sashi Kumar.
The program moved on further with a grand evening ceremony screening Chandrasekhar Reddy’s Fireflies in the Abyss that depicts the life of Nepali migrant workers working in coal pits of Meghalaya.
“While every film in the festival is worth your time, some of films such as Holy Cow, Sawari, Among the Believers and Satisaal in Inferno should not be missed,” says Dixit in a press meet.
To help the audience, the organisers have categorized the films by sub-genres and have also released a mobile app- Film Southasia 2017 that gives complete details about the event.
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]]>The 11th edition of the biennial documentary film festival ‘Film Southasia’ is scheduled to be held from November 2, 2017 at Lalitpur. The four-day FSA’17 event, with the theme ‘Documentary Bears Witness’, will showcase 63 documentaries from the eight SAARC countries, and Myanmar.
The festival, in its 20th year of existence, will screen 45 films in the competitive section which will vie for the Ram Bahadur Trophy for the Best Film with a prize money of USD 2000.
Entries from Nepal
The six films from Nepal in the competitive category are ‘Even When I Fall’ by Sky Neal & Kate McLarnon (2017), ‘Satisal In Inferno’ by Pranay Limbu & Damber Krishna Shrestha (2017), ‘Daughters of the Curved Moon’ by Miranda Morton Yap & Sophie Dia Pegrum (2016), ‘Hospital’ by Kesang Tseten (2016), ‘Save Gangamaya’ by Gopal Shivakoti (2016) and Trembling Mountain by Kesang Tseten (2016).
Foreign Films
Some of the foreign films competing for the honors include ‘A Delicate Weave’ by Anjali Monteiro & KP Jayasankar (India, 2017), ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness’ by Sharmeen Obain Chinoy (Pakistan, 2015), ‘Afghanistan Night Stories’ by Alka Sadat (Afghanistan, 2016), ‘Burma Storybook’ by Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat (Myanmar, 2017), ‘Demons in Paradise’ by Jude Ratnam (Sri Lanka, 2017) and ‘Workers Voice’s by Chaumtoli Huq & Mohammad Romel (Bangladesh, 2015).
Other Categories
‘Split Ends’ by Rajan Kathet of Nepal would be one of the six Student Films at FSA’17 competing for the Best Student Film award of USD 500. Some of the other awards at the fest are the UNICEF award for the Best Film on Children’s issues and the Tareq Masud award for Best Debut Film.
The remaining 12 films will be screened in the special non-competitive section, ‘Documentaries of Dissent’.
In a press release, the festival organizers said, “FSA’17 brings to Nepal the finest documentaries on South Asian subjects produced over the previous two years in a bid to inform, entertain and help promote transformative thinking. The festival also hopes to bring in filmmakers from all over the region and the globe to discuss non-fiction film and promote interaction and mutual understanding in order to strengthen the craft of documentary filmmaking in the region.”
The award winners of FSA’17 will be announced during the concluding day of the festival on November 5.
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