Asoka Handagama Trailers
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Asoka Handagama was born in 1962 in South Sri Lanka. He studied mathematics, before working for Sri Lanka’s Central Bank. He is considered as one of the “Third Generation” in Sri Lankan cinema. Asoka Handagama's entry to filmmaking was via theatre and television. His first two plays gained immediate recognition as they won several awards, but he had his true break-through with Magatha. He started to direct movies for television. His debut feature Moon Lady won many awards but he gained international recognition with This is my Moon (2000)
Most Popular Asoka Handagama Trailers
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30 January 2025
The film follows Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu's relentless pursuit of justice after the tragic abduction and murder of her son, Richard de Zoysa, a journalist, writer, and human rights activist, in 1990.
21 December 2012
Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war.
22 March 2019
A renowned filmmaker receives a mysterious call from an old college mate in the middle of the night. Asandhimitta, whom he recalls as a large and voluptuous woman, asks him to make a film based on her life.
25 September 2005
A schoolboy and his friend are caught at school looking at pornography on the computer. Punished, they wrongly believe that the police are going to arrest them so they hide in an abandoned building and as the boys feel cornered, and fearing for their lives, one of them accidentally kills a prostitute with a dagger thinking she was a mugger.
27 February 2018
Three Sri Lankan filmmakers renowned for their internationally acclaimed films based on the Sri Lankan civil war, join in to make one film to express their views on post-war reality.
10 December 2010
An adolescent boy with no birth certificate denied access to free education. He overwhelms the whole country and achieves what he has been dreaming in daylight.
22 August 1998
This film indicated the formation of a cinematic language consisting of hyper-realistic images. The film won the award for Most Promising Director at the Critics' awards in 1994.
27 September 2002
While working as a mechanic to support a wife at home, Manju struggles to overcome every attempt made at discovering their assigned sex.
12 May 2016
When an alluring young undergrad becomes infatuated with her nearly retired professor, she stirs up the man's humdrum home life in a most unusual way.
09 December 2000
Set in a Northern border village during the Sri Lankan Civil War, a Sinhalese soldier meets a Tamil girl in the battlefield.
30 October 2021
Pablo arrives in British Ceylon from Burma to flee a traumatic relationship that had changed from love into passionate obsession.
16 July 1996
Moon Hunt is filled with magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder. The story moves so fast that a typical cinemagoer may find it difficult to follow it to understand the core message it delivers.
