Director: Somaratne Dissanayake
Screenwriter: Somaratne Dissanayake
Cinematographer: S. Dissanayake
Editor:
Sound: L. Gunaratne
Music: R. Weeasinghe
Cast: J. Kumbukage, N. Fernando, P. Karunarathne, N. Kandasamy; M. Maheshan, M. Perera
Production:
Rupareka Productions
1330/2 10th Lane
Bogahawatta
Pannipitiya - Sri Lanka
Tel: (94) 74 304332 - 77 353153
Fax: (94) 74 304332
Year: 1999
35 mm, Colour, 110 min, OV with simultaneous dubbing
Awarded in Dhaka, Houston, Pyongyang, Isfahan, Chicago and Singapoore Film Festivals.
For the past twenty years , the island of Sri Lanka been troubled by an ethnie conjlict. Government forces are battling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who wants a separate Tamil homeland in the north and East of the island. This war is only two decades old but the animosity and confiicts between the minority Tamil race and the majority Sinhalese race in Sri Lanka goes back many centuries. Sundaram is a tamil who was forced to Join the Tinger rebels. He escapes into the jungle with his seven years old daughter Saroja . He is injured and cannot walk. They are desperately hungry. Saroja For the past twenty years , the island of Sri Lanka been troubled by an ethnie conjlict. Government forces are battling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who wants a separate Tamil homeland in the north and East of the island. This war is only two decades old but the animosity and confiicts between the minority Tamil race and the majority Sinhalese race in Sri Lanka goes back many centuries. Sundaram is a tamil who was forced to Join the Tinger rebels. He escapes into the jungle with his seven years old daughter Saroja.
