Young filmmaker Sanjeewa Pushpakumara's maiden his debut direction ‘Igillena Maaluwo’ (Flying Fish) was screened at the London Film Festival.
The film has won the Critics Award at the 5th South Asian Film Festival held in New Jersey in the United States.
The Awards Ceremony was held in New Jersey from 21st to 23rd October and several films, local and foreign, were presented for this Ceremony. Earlier, the film “Flying Fish” also won the Award for the Best Director at the St. Petersburg Film Festival held in Russia, and was appreciated by the panel of judges at the Seoul Film Festival held in Korea.
The film portrays three parallel stories with different angle to the war; a tale of a twenty year old girl who has an affair with a soldier and gets pregnant. Her father is ashamed. The second story is about a widow and her eight children. The woman has an affair with a villager, her son works in a fish market. The third story is about a couple that has to contribute money to the Tigers. If they do not meet that wish of the Tamils their thirteen year old daughter will be taken. In this way the war threatens to penetrate deep into the lives of the characters.
The cast in the film includes Chaminda Sampath Jayaweera, Gayesha Perera, Rathnayaka Marasinghe, Siththi Mariyam, Sanjeewa Dissanayake, Sumathy Sivamohan and Kaushalya Fernando.
