The film “Let Her Cry,” a tantalizing tale of an extramarital affair between an old professor and his seductive student, might not have been shown on screens in Sri Lanka a decade ago. Works that were ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Prasanna Vithanage directed the pic, which is in the Sinhala language, and will be released with English subtitles. Also receiving an American release will be Boomba Ride, the Indian feature from God ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lankan comedy “Tentigo” (locally titled “Nelum Kuluna”) has become a box office phenomenon, grossing LKR450 million ($1.5 million) to become the country’s second-highest grossing film of all time, ...

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 ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A film produced by Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels was released this week, becoming the first of their nearly 50 movies to be shown in government-controlled areas. The two-hour ...

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 ...