Sri City: The SouthAsia Film Festival (TSFA) at Krea University, a two-day event, opened with a conscious declaration: South Asia must be seen “as a locus of imagination” beyond narrow nationalist frames. As Prof. Bishnu Mohapatra explained in his opening remarks, the festival aimed to counter “stake-centric imagination [that] obscures many things that we value, as they lie in the shadows”. Similarly, TSFA founding director Dr. Kanak Mani Dixit warned that “living histories a