Children of the Sun

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Children of the Sun

by Prasanna Vithanage

Sri Lanka

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Director: Prasanna Vithanage

Script: Prasanna Vithanage

Cinematographer: Rajeev Ravi

Editing: A. Sreekar Prasad

Sound: Tapas Nayak

Music: K. Krishna Kumar

Cast: Sajitha Anuththara, Dinara Punchihewa, Ravindra Randeniya, Shyam Fernando, Iranganie Serasinghe, Damayanthi Fonseka

Production: Jar Pictures, Film Island

Contact:
Jar Pictures, 41
Aram Nagar Part 2,
Versova -Yari Road,
Mumbai 400 061 India
[email protected]
www.jarpictures.com

Year: 2019

Screening: 2020

DCP, color, 103 min, 
OV Sinhala with English and French electronic Subtitles

Busan Film Festival 2019

French Premiere

In 1814, a year before the British colonised Sri Lanka, Tikiri’s husband and other Buddhist nobles try to oust the Tamil king. When this fails, the rebels’ wives are punished. Tikiri is forced to marry Vijaya, a man from the lowest caste. He fails to get her to participate in the rituals of his beggar people, which leads to the clan elder banishing the couple. Far from their communities, they cautiously establish a relationship, but this is interrupted when the Buddhists, this time with British help, manage to depose the king and Tikiri’s meeting with her former husband endangers Vijaya’s people.

There is something unmistakeably political about this moving romantic drama. Just like in contemporary Sri Lanka, where a racially, religiously- charged civil war raged for 30 years, the leads clamp onto their societal identities. Only after experiencing every possible crisis do they realise that character is more important than ancestry.

Period dramas make sense only if they speak to the present.” Prasanna Vithanage

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