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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 between fiction and reality, the film takes us on a 100-year journey, through history and memory, into the future.
Festivals: Singapore International Film Festival 2006.
2 Comments
Narrated in English, with English subtitles for the short sections that are in Sinhalese. This packs a lot of history into an hour and 20 minutes!
This was one of the most understated yet effective commentaries on the ruptures of war that I have yet had the pleasure of seeing. Much to be commended in this film and should serve as a template for many others who wish to make insightful, aesthetically fluent films on a budget. After all, as I gather from a review elsewhere, the documentary was shot on video!