Scheduled to be held from March 17th - 26th 2023, the festival brings to you over 60 award-winning and critically acclaimed films from across the globe and India, which push the boundaries of cinematic arts and reflect on the realities and perceptions of a changing world, all set to woo cinephiles in the city.
Come watch four animations and one documentary from Sri Lanka curated by the Kriti Film Club at the festival.
Date: 19th March, 7 pm onwards at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
ANIMATION PACKAGE FROM SRI LANKA
Curated by Kriti Film Club
ANYA RATNAYAKA on the Colombo Wetlands and the Urban Fishing Cat (Animate Her series)
(06.20 mins/ English with Eng. subtitles / 2022/ Animation/ Sri Lanka)
Dir. Irushi Tennekoon
In this animated interview, wildlife conservationist Anya Ratnayaka talks about how Colombo is a complex wetland habitat - a fact that is little known to its own residents.
LAKMINI WIJESUNDERA on Building Global Tech Brands (Animate Her series)
(06:07 mins/ English with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Animation/ Sri Lanka)
Dir.: Irushi Tennekoon
In this short animation, technology entrepreneur Lakmini Wijesundera talks about her passion to start and build innovative IT products and platforms that create a global impact. She advises young technology entrepreneurs to embrace risk and bear in mind that luck is derived from hard work.
RAMANI MUTTETTUWEGAMA on Advocacy for the Disappeared (Animate Her series)
(05.10 mins./ English with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/ Animation/ Sri Lanka)
Dir. Irushi Tennekoon
In this animated short film, Human Rights lawyer, Ramani talks about her work as an advocate for post war disappeared persons in Sri Lanka.
THE GIRL IN THE RAINWATER TREE
(7:35 mins/ English with Eng. subtitles/ Animation/ 2022/ Sri Lanka)
Dir. Yoshitha Perera and Irushi Tennekoon
This story is set in an imagined land that closely resembles the postwar north and east provinces in Sri Lanka. Meena, a young school girl finds solace in a large tree hollow in her village. Despite her attempts to escape into her imagination, the reality of her life of poverty and desperation catches up with her. Her mother struggles to raise Meena and her infant brother, and ultimately has to give into a grave decision.
About the filmmakers:
Irushi Tennekoon is an animator and picture book illustrator based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She began experimenting with animation a few years ago, using her study table and a stop-motion app on her mobile phone. Through her work, she questions how stories can be told in new ways, by exploring the depths of movement through space and time. Irushi’s first stop-motion film ’83, made in collaboration with Sumedha Kelegama and Sumudu Athukorala, tells the story of one of the darkest periods of Sri Lanka’s past. ’83 won the ‘Best Animated Film’ award at the Agenda14 Film Festival in Colombo in 2016. The film was screened at the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh in 2018, as part of the ‘One Hundred Thousand Small Tales’ exhibition curated by Sharmini Perera and was also screened at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Sri Lanka. Her more recent work, titled the ANIMATE HER series, is funded by the British Council and highlights six women living and working in Sri Lanka.
Yoshitha Perera is a Colombo-based female cinematographer and journalist.
DOCUMENTARY FROM SRI LANKA
Curated by Kriti Film Club
OUR MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, PRIME MINISTER: SIRIMAVO
(83 mins/Sinhala with Eng. subtitles/ 2022/Sri Lanka)
This is a story of the first elected female head of government in modern history - and Sri Lanka’s first female head of government and longest serving Prime Minister, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike. The film juxtaposes the personal and official roles of this unparalleled trailblazer, as she steered the Bandaranaike political dynasty through forty years of active engagement.
About the Filmmaker: Anomaa Rajakaruna has travelled extensively in Sri Lanka documenting the lives of community groups, particularly the lives of women and children for over 30 years. She has addressed issues such as women in armed conflict, displacement and violence against women and has won several awards for her work both nationally and internationally. She is the first female editor of a cinema journal in Sri Lanka and edited ‘Chithrapata’ a Quarterly Cinema Magazine published by the National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka and since 2011 she edits a Quarterly Cinema Journal, ‘14 - Prakashanayata Awakashayak’. Rajakaruna is the Festival Director of Jaffna International Cinema Festival (since 2015), and Founder of Agenda 14 Short Film Festival (2011) in Colombo.
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