Prasanna Vithanage

The ongoing ethnic strife in predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka between the Sinhala majority in the south and the Tamil minority in the north has produced some remarkable films and Prasanna Vithanage's Pura Handa Kaluwara is perhaps the best of them. The film ran into some trouble with the government because of its harrowing portrayal of the devastation of people's lives in the conflict. (KG)

The film set, in post war Sri Lanka, brings us close to two characters who collide quite accidentally, and through them we experience the deep and seemingly unbridgeable chasm that conflict almost always creates. (imdb)

During a Mayoral election in a small town in the Hill Capital, the son of the opposing candidate is missing while on a trip to Worlds End. The opposing candidate who is a leading lawyer has a mistress named Annette, who now becomes the main suspect. A search begins around Worlds End involving the police and the army, thereby involving the media and people to follow the story. The story is entwined in these circumstances and surroundings. (imdb)

Suwisal has turned 40. He's a forgetful businessman, a philanderer, indifferent to life around him, including his young and lovely fiancée. A visit to the house of his childhood triggers memories that continue to cascade when he is called for jury duty to hear the case against Piyum, a servant he seduced and abandoned 20 years before. (imdb)

Sandhya Rani is an aging film star who was once the darling of the silver screen. (wikipedia.org)

Stripped from nobility and forcibly married to an outcast by the monarchy, a noble woman fights to keep her dignity by rejecting to succumb to her destiny. (wikipedia.org)