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 ...

“It is with pride and pleasure, Chitrakala presents to the four million Sinhalese of Ceylon, a picture in their own language for the first time.” was the special message issued by Chitrakala Movietone ...

Minister Bandula Gunawardana has officially granted permission to dub the internationally-produced biopic movie '800' into Sinhala while amending the National Film Corporation Act for the first time.

In a move to bolster film preservation across borders, India‘s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) is teaming with French diplomatic missions in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a two-year project ...

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 ...

Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage was a teenager in 1978 when he first encountered one of the most beguiling chronicles of adolescence. Sumitra Peries’s film Gehenu Lamai, about a young girl’s ...

EMD Upali, a familiar name in both the Colombo Bar and the Sinhala stage, is gearing up to unveil his latest theatrical ...

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 ...

Silenced Voices, a film about the fate of Sri Lankan journalism, is being screened in New York this week as part of the 2012 Human Rights Watch film festival, bringing attention to a country that is ...