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By Anuradha Kodagoda
Southeast Asian triumph: ‘Dreaming & Dying’ takes double honour at 76 Locarno Film Festival
Nelson Yeo’s debut feature “Dreaming & Dying” has garnered significant recognition, winning two awards at the recently concluded 76th Locarno Film Festival. The Singaporean film stands out as the first Southeast Asian production to secure the prestigious Golden Leopard for Concorso Cineasti del presente, an honour exclusively bestowed upon first or second-time feature...
Exclusive Interview with Artistic Director of the 76 Locarno Film Festival:
Amidst the bustling energy just two days before the grand closing ceremony of the 76th Locarno Film Festival, Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro, took a moment from his packed schedule to sit down for an exclusive Zoom interview with the Sunday Observer. This year’s Locarno Film Festival had showcased an array of films spanning genres and styles, making it a captivating...
Asia Pacific Screenplay Lab:
The second session of the eighth Asia Pacific Screenplay Lab recently concluded at the Habarana Village by Cinnamon in Siriya effectively serving as a catalyst for nurturing talent, fostering collaboration, and enhancing the quality of projects in the Asia Pacific region’s film industry.
The Asia Pacific Screen Lab is a developmental laboratory for early career feature...
Berlinale Talents
In an interview conducted via Zoom, the Sunday Observer engages in a conversation with Florian Weghorn, the Program Manager of Berlinale Talents (BT), to delve into the evolving language of cinema and its artistic expression. With a focus on Southeast Asian cinema, including Sri Lankan cinema, we discuss the role of Berlinale Talents in supporting filmmakers, promoting...
Colomboscope’s Forest School
The recently concluded Forest School, a project by the eighth edition of Colomboscope, concluded on a high note, reaffirming the project’s artistic vision and goals. A few weeks ago, the Forest School extended an invitation to local visual artists and contemporary cultural practitioners from various disciplines, offering them the opportunity to engage in an open and...
By Anuradha Kodagoda
Ellerton, a captivating, greenery heaven nestled in Doluwa, Peradeniya, has a fascinating history and a cherished heritage....
Sri Lanka has been dealt blow after blow, defeat after defeat in recent times. Facing the country’s worst economic crisis in its...
It is much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism – Slavoj...
‘Ashes to Life’
From today, December 5 on galleryscapes.lk and the Galleryscapes Instagram and FacebookAsela Abeywardena’s latest art exhibition...
Malaka Dewapriya is an aspiring filmmaker, award winning radio play-writer and visual artist who has had ample exposure locally...
Film review
‘Beer without Alcohol’ a Zoom-short film by Asoka Handagama made swirling waves on social media the whole of last week,...
Russian School of Ballet and Dancing, the fully fledged Russian Ballet School in Sri Lanka presents the Ballet Theatre of Russia...
Theertha thought of its working as a process that interrogated and destabilized that status quo that made it possible for all...
Bringing back the glory to Sri Lanka after 35 years, Mrs Sri Lanka, a mother of one, Caroline Jurie was crowned Mrs World 2020,...
A Film Festival consisting of seven remarkable Sinhala films with outstanding music compositions by the late Pandit Amaradeva...
Kitty Ritig, the name is not unfamiliar at all in the virtual space and has been very much known for her creative expression as...
The 11th edition of the European Film Festival in Colombo will be held at the Tharangani Hall, National Film Corporation from...
The book ‘A Cultural Life: The Conversation of Social Transformation’ was launched recently at Sooriya Village which created the...
The highly anticipated Big Bad Wolf – the world’s biggest book sale is ready to set its paws in the island for the third...
“Rajani did not get accustomed to grief or fear. She was heartbroken when students went missing and cried at the stories she...
The 8th phase of the Colombo International Theatre Festival 2019 was successfully concluded on a high note last week and the...
Jean Solomons Arasanayagam, the much renowned poet, who wrote the Sri Lankan Contemporary English Literary Scene is no more....
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, how will you get it? If you don’t step forward, you...
“A ccording to the recent research published by the Institute of Professional Studies, over a quarter of the population between...
The fourth edition of Naada Gama Live in Concert, a melodious musical evening will come alive on Sunday July 21, 5pm at the Dutch...
Be More Kind - the concert of St Thomas’ Preparatory School directed by Sanchitha Wickramasooriya and co directed by Lihan Mendis...
Suba Sivakumaran, a one-off women filmmaker, a rare sight in the Sri Lankan film industry, blazed the trail recently by winning...
The Colombo Municipal Council is partnering with the Embassy of the Netherlands in Sri Lanka to pilot Colombo’s first car-free...
The Gratiaen Prize 2018, the much awaited literary prize of the year was won by Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke for his play-script,...
In the past few years choirs and choral activity in local schools have risen to an exceptional level. Students of all ages are...
An emerging trend on social media these days, ‘30 Days of Akuru’, created by Akuru Collective are a bunch of artists who have...
Many little girls dream of becoming ballerinas, but the life of a ballerina is mentally and physically difficult than the...
To commemorate the first month after the Easter Sunday terrorist attack, a seminar titled ‘Religious terrorism, Extremism and...
The Kiribathgoda Police has arrested a Muslim woman and nine members of her family who ran a small scale garment business at...
A few weeks after the Easter Sunday brutal terrorist attack, the country is set on fire again with the organised terrorism...
The implications of this next generation television - Netflix and iflix have almost become the giants in the entertainment...
In any progressive society, civil society is the first group to be alarmed, when the country‘s democracy is in danger. During the...
Two weeks have passed since the brutal terrorist attack on Easter Sunday. Colombo is still an uninviting city. Schools and...
He is renowned for his ability to captivate viewers with narratives that object cinema’s cookie-cutter standards. In his career,...
Vajira Chitrasena… The name is synonymous with Sri Lankan ballet and traditional dancing. But her substance wasn’t solely a one-...
In my opinion to establish the PSB model in Sri Lanka, Rupavahini and SLBC perhaps could be easily converted, as it already...