Kochi, April 29 ( Ians) Actors Darshana Rajendran and Roshan Mathew-starrer Malayalam film ‘Paradise’ won the Audience Jury Award at the 23rd Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in Spain.
Directed by Prasanna Vithanage and co-written by Prasanna and Anushka Senanayake, ‘Paradise’, is a tale of emotion, struggle, and resilience.
Produced by Newton Cinemas and presented by Mani Ratnam under the banner of his production company, Madras Talkies, ‘Paradise’ is the first Indian film shot entirely in Sri Lanka.
The audience award is conferred by pre-selected members of the audience, chosen from among the feature films showcased in the Official Feature Films Section of the festival.
The award was received by the director at the closing ceremony of the festival.
Sri Lankan author Prasanna Vithanage’s 10th directorial venture, features a cast, including Darshana Rajendran, Roshan Mathew, Shyam Fernando, and Mahendra Perera.
The crew, including Rajeev Ravi handled cinematography,...
Directed by Prasanna Vithanage and co-written by Prasanna and Anushka Senanayake, ‘Paradise’, is a tale of emotion, struggle, and resilience.
Produced by Newton Cinemas and presented by Mani Ratnam under the banner of his production company, Madras Talkies, ‘Paradise’ is the first Indian film shot entirely in Sri Lanka.
The audience award is conferred by pre-selected members of the audience, chosen from among the feature films showcased in the Official Feature Films Section of the festival.
The award was received by the director at the closing ceremony of the festival.
Sri Lankan author Prasanna Vithanage’s 10th directorial venture, features a cast, including Darshana Rajendran, Roshan Mathew, Shyam Fernando, and Mahendra Perera.
The crew, including Rajeev Ravi handled cinematography,...
- 4/29/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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 where it won the Jiseok Award.
The film follows an Indian couple on holiday in Sri Lanka, where they are touring the Ramayana Trail, a set of locations connected to the Indian mythological epic, just as the country’s economic crisis is starting to kick off. Despite the beauty and signs of impending chaos around them, the husband seems more preoccupied with the Netflix commission he’s just won, prioritizing his professional ambitions, while the wife questions the tour guide’s interpretation of the Ramayana.
When the couple are held at knifepoint and have their phones and laptops stolen, they ask for help from a stoic local police officer who quickly produces three suspects. Their relationship is then severely tested...
The film follows an Indian couple on holiday in Sri Lanka, where they are touring the Ramayana Trail, a set of locations connected to the Indian mythological epic, just as the country’s economic crisis is starting to kick off. Despite the beauty and signs of impending chaos around them, the husband seems more preoccupied with the Netflix commission he’s just won, prioritizing his professional ambitions, while the wife questions the tour guide’s interpretation of the Ramayana.
When the couple are held at knifepoint and have their phones and laptops stolen, they ask for help from a stoic local police officer who quickly produces three suspects. Their relationship is then severely tested...
- 11/2/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Winner of the Kim Jiseok Award for the Best Film at Busan International Film Festival 2023, “Paradise” is a movie that tries to make a number of sociopolitical comments, through an intensely ironic approach that is also as pointed as possible.
Paradise is screening at Busan International Film Festival
Indian film producer Kesav and blogger Amritha are a married couple who arrive in Sri Lanka to tour the ancient sites of the Hindu epic Ramayana. As the time of their tour is happening during the height of the crisis in the country, experiencing a bankruptcy that has made even basic necessities scarce and unaffordable, the presence of tourists is like a blessing for the locals, who bend head over heels to please them, with the guide of the couple being the first.
Kesav is a snob from the beginning, but his behavior becomes even worse when he receives a call informing...
Paradise is screening at Busan International Film Festival
Indian film producer Kesav and blogger Amritha are a married couple who arrive in Sri Lanka to tour the ancient sites of the Hindu epic Ramayana. As the time of their tour is happening during the height of the crisis in the country, experiencing a bankruptcy that has made even basic necessities scarce and unaffordable, the presence of tourists is like a blessing for the locals, who bend head over heels to please them, with the guide of the couple being the first.
Kesav is a snob from the beginning, but his behavior becomes even worse when he receives a call informing...
- 10/14/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Sri Lankan auteur Prasanna Vithanage is back at the Busan International Film Festival with thriller “Paradise,” which is in the Jiseok competition.
The film follows Indian couple – streaming content producer Kesav and blogger Amritha – who are on vacation in Sri Lanka during the country’s ongoing economic crisis. They are the victims of a robbery and find themselves in the thick of the agitations.
The economic crisis in Sri Lanka began in 2019 and was exacerbated during the Rajapaksa family’s regime, leading to a state of near-total collapse and bankruptcy by mid-2022. The crisis had a knock-on effect on the film and TV industry as well.
“The thought behind the story was formed by two factors. The people’s uprising against the Rajapaksa family. There was shortages of essentials. People were in the streets demanding gas, electricity, fuel,” Vithanage told Variety. “Same time, after working on a historical film, “Gaadi – Children of the Sun...
The film follows Indian couple – streaming content producer Kesav and blogger Amritha – who are on vacation in Sri Lanka during the country’s ongoing economic crisis. They are the victims of a robbery and find themselves in the thick of the agitations.
The economic crisis in Sri Lanka began in 2019 and was exacerbated during the Rajapaksa family’s regime, leading to a state of near-total collapse and bankruptcy by mid-2022. The crisis had a knock-on effect on the film and TV industry as well.
“The thought behind the story was formed by two factors. The people’s uprising against the Rajapaksa family. There was shortages of essentials. People were in the streets demanding gas, electricity, fuel,” Vithanage told Variety. “Same time, after working on a historical film, “Gaadi – Children of the Sun...
- 10/8/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Winner of the Caméra d’Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Sri Lankan “The Forsaken Class” is a masterclass in cinematography, with the director focusing all his efforts in that department.
The story takes place in a desolate savannah, where the protagonists spend their lives aimlessly, almost completely untouched by the clash between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Anura is a home guard service man, who fulfills his duty guarding a post where nothing ever happens, apart from the soldiers playing the occasional practical joke to him. He switches with an older, alcoholic man named Piyasiri, with the weight of doing nothing every day laying heavy on the psychology of both men. Anura lives in his small, rundown house with no indoor plumbing, with his wife Lata, his sister Soma, and his daughter Batti. Soma leaves everyday in the dawn to...
The story takes place in a desolate savannah, where the protagonists spend their lives aimlessly, almost completely untouched by the clash between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Anura is a home guard service man, who fulfills his duty guarding a post where nothing ever happens, apart from the soldiers playing the occasional practical joke to him. He switches with an older, alcoholic man named Piyasiri, with the weight of doing nothing every day laying heavy on the psychology of both men. Anura lives in his small, rundown house with no indoor plumbing, with his wife Lata, his sister Soma, and his daughter Batti. Soma leaves everyday in the dawn to...
- 1/10/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Leviathan leads contenders; 36 films from 21 countries in the running.
Films in the running for the 2014 Apsa for Best Feature Film include Winter Sleep (Turkey, France, Germany), Leviathan (Russia), I’m Not Angry (Iran), The Owners (Kazakhstan), and Memories on Stone (Iraqi Kurdistan, Germany).
Leviathan, also nominated for Achievement in Cinematography for Mikhail Krichman, has received three nominations in total, the most for any film.
In total, 36 films from 21 countries are in the running for awards.
Nominees vying for the award in the Achievement in Directing category are: Rolf de Heer (Charlie’s Country, Australia), Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Russia), Im Kwon-taek (Revivre, South Korea), Rakhshan Banietemad (Tales, Iran) and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Turkey, France, Germany).
For the first time, a film from Syria has received a nomination, with Silvered Water, Syria Self-portrait (Syria, France) nominated for the Apsa for Best Feature Documentary.
Films from the China and Russia lead the nominations with six each, closely followed...
Films in the running for the 2014 Apsa for Best Feature Film include Winter Sleep (Turkey, France, Germany), Leviathan (Russia), I’m Not Angry (Iran), The Owners (Kazakhstan), and Memories on Stone (Iraqi Kurdistan, Germany).
Leviathan, also nominated for Achievement in Cinematography for Mikhail Krichman, has received three nominations in total, the most for any film.
In total, 36 films from 21 countries are in the running for awards.
Nominees vying for the award in the Achievement in Directing category are: Rolf de Heer (Charlie’s Country, Australia), Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Russia), Im Kwon-taek (Revivre, South Korea), Rakhshan Banietemad (Tales, Iran) and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Turkey, France, Germany).
For the first time, a film from Syria has received a nomination, with Silvered Water, Syria Self-portrait (Syria, France) nominated for the Apsa for Best Feature Documentary.
Films from the China and Russia lead the nominations with six each, closely followed...
- 10/28/2014
- ScreenDaily
28 – Sri is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013.
Prasanna Jayakody
Project Description. Language.
The protagonist of 28- Sri, Abasiri, sees the nudity of his own wife only after 15 years, on a mortuary table after she had been raped and murdered. His struggle to establish a relationship with his wife, even though she is already a dead body, reveals the sexual frustration of a culture which once enjoyed an open engagement with its sexuality but was subsequently modified under a colonial Victorian orthodoxy and its implied code of ethics.
This film is in Singhalese.
Which stage of development is it in currently?
The project is in post production stage now.
Award winning Sri-Lankan actors like Mahendra Perera, Semini Iddamalgoda, Rukmal Nirosh, Sarath Kothalawala and others have been cast in the film.
Director’s Bio:
Prasanna Jayakody is a Sri Lankan born film director and screenwriter.
Prasanna Jayakody
Project Description. Language.
The protagonist of 28- Sri, Abasiri, sees the nudity of his own wife only after 15 years, on a mortuary table after she had been raped and murdered. His struggle to establish a relationship with his wife, even though she is already a dead body, reveals the sexual frustration of a culture which once enjoyed an open engagement with its sexuality but was subsequently modified under a colonial Victorian orthodoxy and its implied code of ethics.
This film is in Singhalese.
Which stage of development is it in currently?
The project is in post production stage now.
Award winning Sri-Lankan actors like Mahendra Perera, Semini Iddamalgoda, Rukmal Nirosh, Sarath Kothalawala and others have been cast in the film.
Director’s Bio:
Prasanna Jayakody is a Sri Lankan born film director and screenwriter.
- 11/18/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
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