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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Closing Night Film: Machan

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  • Flying With One Wing

    Ironic, almost comic jewel about a Sri Lankan woman-to-man transvestite who works in the building industry and marries a woman. Sometimes shocking and
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  • A Drop in the Reign of Terror

    Terrorism, injustice, lies, corruption, love – relationships between the two Sri Lankan families become increasingly complex.
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  • The Land of Silence

    A film that portrays a war (the lengthy civil war in Sri Lanka) in a way that clarifies and doesn’t fascinate. The present as an…
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  • House of My Fathers

    Magic-realist fairy tale about the Sri Lankan civil war captures the fear and trauma with its poetic, acerbic tone.
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  • 28

    Poetic travelogue in breathtaking countryside of Sri Lanka counterpointed with the journey of two simple men and a mysterious coffin heading towards a
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  • The Eyes of Summer

    In a Sri Lankan hamlet a shy girl becomes friends with a spirit. Based on the filmmaker’s mother’s childhood experiences.
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  • Children of the Sun

    A princess is married off to a beggar in pre-colonial Sri Lanka. She discovers character is more important than ancestry.
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  • The Forsaken Land

    How deep, indescribable traumas of war render real peace and human contact all but impossible in Sri Lanka, after more than 30 years of civil…
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  • Scent of the Lotus Pond

    In Sri Lanka, melodrama is alive and kicking, as evidenced by this ‘Buddhist trilogy’ about the life of Gothami, an insecure, frustrated and sometimes
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