In a major attack on democratic rights, the Sri Lanka government last week banned Igillena Maluwo (Flying Fish), by film director Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, and shut down a French film festival in Colombo ...

Colombo, Sri Lanka — As a girl, when Srimathi Mallika Kaluarachchi would go to the cinema with her family, and a man on the screen would hit the character played by superstar Malini Fonseka, ...

An award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker credits the Catholic Church’s media initiatives with having developed and improved the country’s film industry. Prasanna Vithanage, who won this year’s SIGNIS Sri ...

The old president has fled, the new one is just as unpopular, and a state of emergency is in place as Sri Lanka weathers the worst economic crisis in its history. The island nation known as the pearl ...

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 ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. — The historic Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara hosted the first-ever Sri Lankan Ceylon International Film Festival on Friday. The three day event showcased films ranging ...

How did the first-ever Sri Lankan Film Festival organized outside of Sri Lanka end up in Santa Barbara? This island country in South Asia (formerly known as Ceylon) is the hometown of organizer Aruni ...

The Oscar-nominated director best known for her Elements Trilogy has made a queer coming-of-age tale that's equally poignant and joyous. From her groundbreaking Elements Trilogy to “Funny Boy,” her ...

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 ...

Screenings of Purahanda Kaluwara (Death on a Full Moon Day) will be held on September 28 in Colombo after Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court last month ordered the Peoples Alliance (PA) government to lift its ...

Sri Lanka is among the closest foreign countries we have, and historically, we have been very involved with it. If the Cholas conquered it, the Lankan kings aligned with the Pandyas and later joined ...