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Sri
Lanka filmfest from August 28
By Pandit Simpi
A 4-day festival of films from Sri Lanka will open at the
Russian Cultural Centre Auditorium, Mumbai on Monday August
28 at 6-30 pm. The formal inauguration will be followed by
the screening of the award-winning Death On A Full Moon Day
written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage. The film, made
in 1997 and with a running time of 75 minutes, had won the
Grand Prix at the 19the Amiens International Film Festival
as well as the international critics’ award at the Fribourg
festival.
Details of the festival films were announced at a press briefing
by Ms Manel de Silva, consul general for Sri Lanka in Mumbai,
who said that the festival would be attended by Tissa Abeysekara,
the chairman of Sri Lanka’s National Film Corporation.
Abeysekara is also a well-known film writer and director and
his documentary, The Sun And The Moonstones will be shown
in the festival.
The Lankan films to be shown on subsequent days are: August
29—The Sun And The Moonstones written an directed by
Tissa Abeysekara and The Outcast written and directed by Linton
Semage; August 30-Saroja, written and directed by Somaratne
Dissanayake; and August 31— Eldest Daughter written by
Tissa Abeysekara and directed by Sumitra Peries. The screening
time on each day is 6-30 pm.
This is the first ever festival of Sri Lankan films being
held in Mumbai and has been organised by the Sri Lanka Consulate
General in association with the Indo-Sri Lanka Society (ISLS)
and the Prabhat Chitra Mandal(PCM). Capt Avinash Batra, the
president of ISLS, and Sudhir Nandgaonkar, of PCM, were present
at the Press briefing. It was stated that after Mumbai, these
films will be screened in other Indian cities like Pune, Ahmedabad,
Calcutta, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram.
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