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August Sun Trailer

August 29, 2012 / Drama, Movie Trailers, Prasanna Vithanage, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, War & Military

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Ira Madiyama Released: 2003 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Prasanna Vithanage Language: Sinhalese Theme: War & Military Genre: Drama Summary This filmic offering by acclaimed director Prasanna Vithanage (Walls Within and Death on a Full Moon Day) is a poignant narrative of human displacement against the backdrop of the bitter, real-life conflict [...]

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The Wasps are Here

September 22, 2011 / Dharmasena Pathiraja, Drama, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Social & Economic Issues, Sri Lanka

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Bambaru Avith Released: 1977 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Dharmasena Pathiraja Language: Sinhalese Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Malini Fonseka and Vinjaya Kamaratunga acted together in 41 films, and The Wasps are Here (1978) is one of their pairings. Fonseka is a young girl engaged to a young fisherman and [...]

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Some Day in the Future

September 22, 2011 / Dharmasena Pathiraja, Drama, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Social & Economic Issues, Sri Lanka

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Mathu Yam Davasa Released: 2001 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Dharmasena Pathiraja Language: Sinhalese Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Sri Lanka’s veteran realist, Dharmasena Pathiraja, has always been interested in politics and in society’s marginal people, and both are important parts of “Some Day in the Future,” which had its [...]

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Ponmani

September 22, 2011 / Dharmasena Pathiraja, Drama, Family & Relationships, Most Popular, Movie Trailers, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Top 10

Ponmani comes from the highest caste in Tamil society, but her family has fallen on hard times and can’t even pay what they owe on her married eldest sister’s dowry, let alone find dowries for her and her middle sister.

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Old Soldier

September 22, 2011 / Dharmasena Pathiraja, Drama, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, War & Military

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Soldadu Unnehe Released: 1981 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Dharmasena Pathiraja Language: Sinhalese Theme: War & Military Genre: Drama Summary Though veteran director Dharmasena Pathiraja was noted for his leftist leanings, he said that the Marxists were “out of touch with the realties of the people, their material conditions, power, and even their [...]

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In Search of a Road

September 22, 2011 / Dharmasena Pathiraja, Documentary, History, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 2006 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Dharmasena Pathiraja Language: Sinhalese Theme: History Genre: Documentary Summary The story unfolds even as its people embark on a long journey on 1st August, 1905 through place, land, territory, war and peace, home and state into the land of the unknown, to a no-man’s land. Blurring the lines [...]

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Silent Honor

September 22, 2011 / Drama, Mental Health & Psychology, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, Tanuj Anawaratne

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Nisila Gira Released: 2007 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Tanuj Anawaratne Language: Sinhalese Theme: Mental Health & Psychology Genre: Drama Summary First-time director Tanuj Anawaratne presents a true story and a moving portrait of Radha, a high-society woman and politician’s wife who is devastated by the tragic death of her beloved son at [...]

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Pickpocket

September 22, 2011 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Linton Semage, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Mage Wam Atha Released: 2001 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Linton Semage Language: Sinhalese Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Drama Summary Kamal, a Sri Lankan pickpocket, is under pressure from his pregnant wife, Vansantha, to go straight. But his life falls apart when he finds a photo of her in one of the [...]

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This is My Moon

September 22, 2011 / Asoka Handagama, Drama, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, War & Military

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Me Maghe Sandhai Released: 2000 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Asoka Handagama Language: Sinhalese Theme: War & Military Genre: Drama Summary The film opens with the sudden appearance of a Tamil girl in a small Sri Lankan army bunker caught in a fierce night battle with the LTTE. The only soldier (Saumya Liyanage) [...]

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Walls Within

September 22, 2011 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Movie Trailers, Prasanna Vithanage, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Pawuru Walalu Released: 1997 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Prasanna Vithanage Language: Sinhalese Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Drama Summary Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage sets this tragic story of the fifties in the walled city of Galle Fort, where Violet, a middle-aged woman, has raised two daughters alone. One is married and [...]

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Ice On Fire

September 22, 2011 / Communication & Media, Drama, Movie Trailers, Prasanna Vithanage, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Sisila Gini Gani Released: 1992 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Prasanna Vithanage Language: Sinhalese Theme: Communication & Media Genre: Drama Summary Harris Makalanda has all but won his town’s mayoral election. A prominent lawyer deeply devoted to his family, Harris’s brilliance and popularity combined have secured a charismatic, well-to-do image. But when his [...]

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Flying with One Wing Trailer

September 22, 2011 / Asoka Handagama, Drama, Gender & Sexuality, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Tani Tatuwen Piyabanna Released: 2002 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Asoka Handagama Language: Sinhalese Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Drama Summary Award-winning Sri Lankan director Asoka Handagama explores gender issues in Tani Tatuwen Piyabanna (Flying with One Wing). Successful mechanic Manju has a happy marriage, and enjoys dancing and playing soccer with his [...]

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