Asoka Handagama

Him, Here, After

Asoka Handagama

Dharshan Dharmaraj, Subashini Balasubramaniyam

Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war. (TIFF)

Asandhimitta

Asoka Handagama

Sandali Ash, Anula Bulathsinhala

A renowned filmmaker receives a mysterious call from an old college mate in the middle of the night. Asandhimitta, whom he recalls as a large and voluptuous woman, asks him to make a film based on her life. She then confesses that she was recently involved in a triple homicide of three women and is taken into custody shortly afterwards. Intrigued, the filmmaker attempts to piece together her fragmented story for a film while Asandhimitta herself awaits her fate in a local prison.

Her. Him. The Other

Prasanna Vithanage, Vimukthi Jayasundara

Three Sri Lankan filmmakers renowned for their internationally acclaimed films based on the Sri Lankan civil war, join in to make one film to express their views on post-war reality.

Vidhu - විදූ

Asoka Handagama

Thanishka Vimalarathne, Chandani Seneviratne

An adolescent boy with no birth certificate denied access to free education. He overwhelms the whole country and achieves what he has been dreaming in daylight.

තනි තටුවෙන් පියාඹන්න

Asoka Handagama

In order to avoid the gender discrimination prevelent in Sri Lanka, a woman decides to pass as a man and gets a job as a mechanic and even takes a wife.

මේ මගේ සඳයි

Asoka Handagama

Saumya Liyanage, Dilhani Ekanayake

Set in a Northern border village during the Sri Lankan Civil War, a Sinhalese soldier meets a Tamil girl in the battlefield. The soldier leaves the army with the girl, and goes back to his village. The arrival of the Tamil girl into this predominantly Sinhala village causes a stir within the community, where they collectively decide to send her to a refugee camp. "This is My Moon" is a controversial examination of village life, where rural myths are shattered to reveal a deeper reality of a society torn apart by war.

Alborada

Asoka Handagama

Luis J Romero, Anne-Solenne Hatte

Pablo arrives in British Ceylon from Burma to flee a traumatic relationship that had changed from love into passionate obsession. He notices a young pariah woman who empties his outhouse every morning. To Pablo she appears divine. In one morning, he takes her hand and leads her into his bed. Unable to believe or accept her bizarre fate, she remains passive throughout the series of events that unfold thereafter.

ඇගේ ඇස අග

Asoka Handagama

Swarna Mallawarachchi, Dhritiman Chatterjee

When an alluring young undergrad becomes infatuated with her nearly retired professor, she stirs up the man's humdrum home life in a most unusual way.

Chanda Kinnari - චන්ද කින්නරී

Asoka Handagama

Hemasiri Liyanage, Swarna Mallawarachchi

A Sri Lankan movie

Aksharaya

Asoka Handagama

Isham Samzudeen, Piyumi Samaraweera

A schoolboy and his friend are caught at school looking at pornography on the computer. Punished, they wrongly believe that the police are going to arrest them so they hide in an abandoned building and as the boys feel cornered, and fearing for their lives, one of them accidentally kills a prostitute with a dagger thinking she was a mugger...