Cyril Wickramage

Film starring Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Malani Fonseka.

À Kalpitiya, petit village de pêcheurs du Sri Lanka, l’arrivée de jeunes citadins va provoquer de vives tensions au sein de la communauté. Victor est venu ici avec ses amis pour remettre de l’ordre dans les affaires de son père, un chef de pêche local. Mais le patriarche Anton ne voit pas d’un bon oeil ses nouvelles méthodes importées de la ville. Les frictions vont s’intensifier lorsque Victor jette son dévolu sur la séduisante Helen, déjà promise à un autre homme du village.

Based on a novel written by Sumithra Rahubadda.

Sath Samudura is a landmark Sri Lankan film directed by professor Siri Gunasinghe and released in 1967. This film was critically acclaimed and is considered a major work in Sri Lankan cinema. It depicts the plight of fishermen living in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.

An illiterate and sexually frustrated young man finds himself attracted to a chic woman from the city who has come to his rural village as a school teacher.

Set in the dry zone of Sri Lanka, Suddi is married to a notorious criminal in the village, Romiel. Convicted for a murder Romiel is jailed. Miserable Suddhi has to depend on Sirimewan Mudalalie, a shrewd businessman from town.

Maruthaya is a very honest, daring, and dramtic exposure of the traumatic experiences of an honest politicain and his family. Director Vasantha Obeysekera’s frank and sensitive handling of an age old topic, conveys a clear message that in politics, honesty is not always the best policy! And politicians are losers everytime! Maruthaya highlights the tragic plight of a politician’s family, which had tasted all the perks of power when the going was good, and the shattering experience of being faced with defeat at the elections, and all the evil that comes with it in Sri Lanka.