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 ...
In a move to bolster film preservation across borders, India‘s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) is teaming with French diplomatic missions in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a two-year project ...
The film “Let Her Cry,” a tantalizing tale of an extramarital affair between an old professor and his seductive student, might not have been shown on screens in Sri Lanka a decade ago. Works that were ...
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 ...
Colombo, Sri Lanka — As a girl, when Srimathi Mallika Kaluarachchi would go to the cinema with her family, and a man on the screen would hit the character played by superstar Malini Fonseka, ...
An award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker credits the Catholic Church’s media initiatives with having developed and improved the country’s film industry. Prasanna Vithanage, who won this year’s SIGNIS Sri ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The closing night of the Second Annual Ceylon International Film Festival is Saturday, Oct. 28 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Lobero Theatre and the community is encouraged to ...
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 ...