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A coming of age story of a young boy from a rural village in Sri Lanka, as he journeys through twists and turns of his life and finally comes up triumphant.

After witnessing her politician father's assassination by Soththi, Daughter Pooja a crucial witness, becomes a target herself. Leader is hired to safeguard her due to her pivotal role in proving Soththi's guilt.

'You look like a prince'. A brief love story of a young man.

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 one engaged, and she seeks to get them settled as the reappearance of Victor, her lost first love, makes her wonder if she might also be happy.

Conceptually informed by Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminal film Reassemblage, this short piece describes an impressionistic encounter with a woman seen from a great distance through a curious telescopic lens.

Sumi is a girl who is in a lesbian relationship. Akash works as a rising politician with the help of sumi's family. Their parents have decided their marriage. Akash is strongly against this. But seeing that Sumi is having sex with her partner, Akash agrees to this marriage. Although Sumi is surprised by this, after the marriage it is revealed that Akash is also a homosexual.

The smile of a dream that brought hope...

A painter (Kamal Addaraarachchi) has a girl that calls him uncle. She asks for his consent to marry a rich boy. He opposes by saying rich men only care about money. Then he relates his past to the girl. Then the story moves to a flashback. The painter has had a relationship with a girl from a rich family during his youth. He meets her in an art gallery and then gradually develops a relationship which culminates in making her pregnant. Then she requests him to meet her parents and she lies to them that he is a wealthy and rich person. In disgust, he leaves her. Then, after a long time, he finds out that she had lied to marry him. In other words, to get her parents' consent. He ultimately finds that the boy in the story is his son and his fiancée had died at the time of delivery. At the end of the story he commits suicide. At the end of the film the girl finds the painter dead on the floor.

When a young Sri Lankan woman returns home to her fishing village after growing up in an orphanage, she is appalled by its feudal prejudices and iniquities. She is determined to change things.

Zoom (2016) is a Sinhala 3D horror-romance film revolving around twin sisters, Naduli and Sanuli. After Naduli dies in a tragic accident, her soul takes over her guilt-ridden sister Sanuli's body to reunite with her lover, Nisal. The film focuses on the psychological conflict, as family and friends try to exorcise the soul, leaving the audience to wonder which twin will survive.

The Truth Is Not Truth...

Lalith is a chief Clarke of a Government Department. He falls in love with Nilanthi, a newly recruited typist. But Nilanthi is attracted to another handsome young Clarke in the same department named Sagara. Lalith detests this. He starts to suspect each and every act of Sagara and Nilanthi. ‘Dahasak Sithivili’ is based on Lalith’s efforts to prevent himself from getting carried away by these endless suspicions.

Parliament Jokes is a 2002 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy.

Siri Parakum (සිරිපරකුම්) is a 1988 Sri Lankan film. Directed by H.D. Premaratne. Language: Sinhala. Runtime: 118.0 minutes. Historical Country of origin: Sri Lanka.

Moon Hunt is filled with magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder. The story moves so fast that a typical cinemagoer may find it difficult to follow it to understand the core message it delivers. But that is typical of all Handagama creations. Unless you dive into them several times, with patience in mind and heart, you cannot learn of what he says. But once it dawns on you, you will find them rare gems that have been carefully cut and polished for you to enjoy the hidden beauty in them. Till then, Handagama himself is magic, mystery, and wonder.

Kimbulapitiya, is ambitious and wants to become an MP, he likes Roopika his boarding master's daughter. But Roopika likes Bandu. As his mother does not approve his friendship with Roopika, Bandu disguises himself as a woman and comes to work there as a housemaid to get her consent.

Set in a drought and poverty stricken remote agricultural village, "Pura Sakmana" tells the story of a mother and daughter who are forced to do the bidding of the local village 'Mafia' boss in order to ensure that their next meal is on the table. The struggle for survival in conditions of severe drought for the rural farmer and the problems of the brewing and selling of illicit liquor and the destruction it causes to the fabric of traditional village life are well portrayed in this film.

During Sri Lanka’s Independence Day on its eve, the holiday and the day after, and involves the participation of four oppressed souls: a World War II veteran, a prostitute, her thieving pimp and a clerk who have chosen the base of a tree as their asylum from the spectacle of pageantry.

Sri Lanka’s first LGBT film stars Joe Abeywickrema as Sunny a scion of a feudal family having an affair with a young man.