Discoveries from Sri Lanka World Cinema

what she/he wants to express is the infinity of everything. as such , it is realized that every movement is a copy of certain unknown reason

When a critically ill person was taken to hospital to be admitted his eyes captured reflection of the city.

A country woman who turns to be a widow and a single mother is forced to choose between life and death by poverty, gender inequality and ignorance of the society

This film was produced by Government Film Unit of (Ceylon) Sri Lanka which was directed by Pragnasoma Hettiarachi.

Sihinayaki Re (සිහිනයකි රෑ) is a 1967 Sri Lankan film. Directed by Lester James Peries. Language: Sinhala. Runtime: 108.0 minutes. Country of origin: Sri Lanka.

Every person has two sides. Two Flavors

A 1985 Sri Lankan drama directed by Sarath Gunaratne. The film features performances by Douglas Ranasinghe and Sriyani Amarasena. Ideally noted for its visual style, the film won the award for Best Black and White Cinematography at the 14th Sarasaviya Awards, alongside an award for Best Female Playback Singer.

After his mother's death, Piyal meets Amanda, and begins seeing her as the woman who is able to fill the void within him.

Soldiers from both sides of Sri Lanka’s civil war fall in love. But their time out of war in the safety of a monastery threatens to be short, with detachments of both armies closing in.

A girl, who is staying alone at home until her two brothers and parents arrive, hears the sound of her mother crying on the phone. Later, she gets to know from her elder brother who comes home early that her younger brother was sick when he came home. She searches for what happened amidst many such questions. Will she be able to find out the truth? Is this really true?

A documentary revealing the Kurukkalmadam Massacre and the abductions of travellers on roads to and from Kattankudy during the civil war in Sri Lanka.

Sri lankan horror film.

Since the Stone Age, man has done many things to cover his nakedness. For some time he covered his nakedness with leaves. Later, they used animal skins to cover their nakedness by creating different clothes. In the gradually developing Sri Lankan society, the name Sarama is the main men's clothing in Sri Lanka. So Samare is the speaker of this story called Sarama. Both the good and the bad that happened to Samara due to Sarama are very easily unfolded as humorous stories that heal the minds of the people subjected to various games in an oppressive society. This is the story of Samare's Sarama, who lived between birth and death.

A young man with short fuse picks a fight with four strangers in a restaurant, but finds himself inexplicably stuck, reliving the same violent confrontation over and over until he can find a way to break the cycle and learn to control him.

In the land of Sindas, an alternate reality of ancient Sri Lanka, a young prince is denied his ancestral wealth. With the help of a forbidden ritual he tries to summon a demon that will do his bidding. But all rituals require an offering...

The theme of this film is the story of Sri Lanka getting the Buddhism with the visit of Mihindu thero from India and accordingly this film is named Mahindagamanaya. The arrival of Mihindu.

A desperate father goes above and beyond to enlighten the future of his children.

A well-known cricketer’s sexual orientation becomes a hot topic in social media and he tries to isolate himself from his teammates, friends, and family. He becomes suspicious of his partner and a popular singer who lives next door tries to reconcile them. Finally, the cricketer’s mother arrives at his home and meets his partner for the first time.

Melancholic short story about a shoemaker.

Documentary film

The Truth Is Not Truth...

Thriller Sinhala Short Film

In a small village in northern Sri Lanka, a young girl is forced to confront the consequences of a deadly civil war as a wounded freedom fighter is brought in to their home.

Bawa's Garden is a road movie in search of the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the 'lost' garden of Lunuganga. Finding the treasure might be the goal, yet her search is the catalyst for encounters with a series of characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa's life and work.

A short film depicts a woman who struggles to survive in an unfamiliar world and initially tries to commit suicide. However, she eventually meets someone who guides her and later she discovers a purpose in life.

Sri Lankan labor migration to the Middle East, using popular culture and anecdotal, intimate recollections to challenge monolithic narratives of personal history and middle-class Muslim upbringing.

'You look like a prince'. A brief love story of a young man.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the lives of the Negombo fishermen of southern Ceylon.

Women start giving birth to physically and mentally different babies who seem to be supernaturally gifted.

A Sri Lankan woman's family try to pressure her into accepting a marriage proposal.

White Van Stories is a documentary feature on enforced disappearances following seven characters from the families of the disappeared in North, East and South Provinces of Sri Lanka.

Conceptually informed by Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminal film Reassemblage, this short piece describes an impressionistic encounter with a woman seen from a great distance through a curious telescopic lens.

Orphaned Ravi, in the company of four elephants, has to perform with them at street corners, in order to survive. The back-story is that as an orphan, they have saved his life from a leopard in his childhood. After his father's death, Ravi began to live with elephants. As time passed, Ravi has grown up. He meets with Manju, and both fall in love. rich dad, Senarathna, is opposed to this alliance, but subsequently relents, and permits the young couple to get married. However, trouble looms soon after as Manju feels neglected. Things worsen when their child is born, and Manju , fearing physical harm to her child from the elephants, tells Ravi to choose between the elephants and his family. When Ravi chooses his lifelong friends over wife and son, Senarathna decides to bring the estranged couple together, but thanks to the villainous Mervyn, he has to sacrifice his life.

When a young Sri Lankan woman returns home to her fishing village after growing up in an orphanage, she is appalled by its feudal prejudices and iniquities. She is determined to change things.

This film emerged from footage originally captured for a feature documentary on enforced disappearances among Sri Lanka’s Tamil population—specifically, an interview with a mother whose son vanished in the war’s final stages.

Sookiri is a child who is very interested in computers. He belongs to a poor family and his father is a driver. The father drives the car of a rich person, whose son is also in the same class as Sookiri. They are good friends. Sookiri invents a new piece of computer equipment which needs a big sum of money to finish the project. He gets his rich friend to finish the project by buying the missing piece and gets him to enter the Sri Lanka's child inventor competition. But will Sookiri's invention win the competition?

One of the two people who are going to fishing realizes that there is something strange in the events of that day. Suddnly they have to face a confusing event because of a strange "sound" they hear in the middle of their journey.

Things that happen in life. Sometimes it's a delicious cup of tea but sometimes it's just a cup of tea. So we need to figure out what we need to choose and what it will coss.

The film revolves around the early chronicles after death of Lord Buddha, where the sacred tooth relic transferred to Sri Lanka from India by Prince Dantha and Princess Hemamala