A renowned filmmaker and educator will showcase the work of his countrymen in “Contemporary Sri Lankan Cinema at Yale,” a film and discussion series that will take place the first two weeks in April.
How did the first-ever Sri Lankan Film Festival organized outside of Sri Lanka end up in Santa Barbara? This island country in South Asia (formerly known as Ceylon) is the hometown of organizer Aruni ...
In a major attack on democratic rights, the Sri Lanka government last week banned Igillena Maluwo (Flying Fish), by film director Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, and shut down a French film festival in Colombo ...
The idea to restore ‘Gehenu Lamai’ began in 2018 when Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director of Film Heritage Foundation, along with members of International Federation for Film Archives (FIAF) travelled ...
The old president has fled, the new one is just as unpopular, and a state of emergency is in place as Sri Lanka weathers the worst economic crisis in its history. The island nation known as the pearl ...
Sri Lankan-Indian cinematic collaboration created by talented filmmaker Devinda Kongahage has been released in Indian cinema circle. Made based on true political and social events and some ...
Sri Lankan comedy “Tentigo” (locally titled “Nelum Kuluna”) has become a box office phenomenon, grossing LKR450 million ($1.5 million) to become the country’s second-highest grossing film of all time, ...
Paradise, directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage, is playing in the Icons: South Asia section of Mumbai Film Festival, fresh from its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival ...
Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage was a teenager in 1978 when he first encountered one of the most beguiling chronicles of adolescence. Sumitra Peries’s film Gehenu Lamai, about a young girl’s ...
After more than 20 years of war, in February 2002 the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam signed a ceasefire agreement. Barriers to travel, dialogue, and understanding ...
Screenings of Purahanda Kaluwara (Death on a Full Moon Day) will be held on September 28 in Colombo after Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court last month ordered the Peoples Alliance (PA) government to lift its ...
The organizers of a film festival in Sri Lanka have been accused of censorship for pulling from its program a documentary about the island nation's civil war. Film director Jude Ratnam said he was ...
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