The national commemorative ceremony organized to mark 79 years of Sri Lankan Sinhala talkie cinema and 54 years since the ...

The critically acclaimed Sinhala film Mother Lanka, currently being screened locally, is set to reach new audiences in South India after being dubbed into a Dravidian language. This marks a ...

The Sinhala version of Beena Sarwar’s international documentary ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines’, which was produced and translated into Sinhala by Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe, ...

For Deepa Mehta, Sri Lanka has been a creative sanctuary – one where she could easily recreate rural India by the sacred Ganges in Water, or the setting for Funny Boy – a land on the cusp of conflict ...

After more than 20 years of war, in February 2002 the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam signed a ceasefire agreement. Barriers to travel, dialogue, and understanding ...

Sri Lankans are mourning the death of a Catholic film director, producer and screenwriter who carved a pioneering role in bringing worldwide recognition to Sinhala cinema. Dr. Lester James Peiris ...

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 ...