KATHMANDU: Natasha, Sonali, Kanti, and Abha are as different as they are confident and quite independent. Young Natasha with hearing impairment is a graphic designer and she likes to dress up and is happy with a few words of appreciation, while Abha who is in her 40s has many degrees to be proud of. Like any woman she also likes to dress up and put on make-up, but she doesn’t want to be protected like a baby because of polio. Meanwhile, visually impaired Sonali is happily married, and an independent Kanti, who also suffered from polio, doesn’t want sympathy because of the problem. These four women come out with their beautiful and inspiring stories in a 52-minute film — Accsex from India. Directed by Shweta Ghosh, the film shares and explores the notion of beauty and sexuality with regard to how they are. Be it about sexuality and beauty or press freedom, refugees, Bollywood actor Salman Khan lookalike — 43 films with compelling tales will be screened at the Film Southasia (FSA) 2015. Showcasing films from across South Asian countries — Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka among others, the 10th edition of the festival will be being held from November 19 to 22 at Yala Mala Kendra, Patan Dhoka. Entertaining, and unravelling lives and stories, this festival will screen films on politics to light-hearted films to feature films. You will get to watch Ramyata Limbu and Amy Benson’s Drawing the Tiger, Kesang Tseten’s Castaway Man, News from Jaffna is another documentary about press freedom in one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalism Sri Lanka, then there is light-hearted films like Being Bhaijaan, which is a story about Salman Khan lookalike from India and Brent E Huffman’s Saving Mes Aynak. And a heart-warming film about the refugees at Jallozai Refugee Camp, is A Walnut Tree. These films are only a few names from a long list. “We have films from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh... we have beautiful films from Burma which we overlooked but it turns out we have best films from Burma and that too from a film school. And we have unreleased film from India too...” assistant Director of Film Southasia, Nivida Lamichhane informed about the festival. She also added that the festival is introducing students’ section of films for the first time. There are eight films in this section. Set up in 1997, FSA is a biennial festival that popularises documentary as it entertains, informs and changes lives.