“Maestro” Lester James Peries will celebrate his 97th birthday next Tuesday. The master movie maker of Sinhala cinema was born on April 5th 1919. Lester James Peries is the man whom I regard as the ...

“It is with pride and pleasure, Chitrakala presents to the four million Sinhalese of Ceylon, a picture in their own language for the first time.” was the special message issued by Chitrakala Movietone ...

Started as a producer with ‘Aba’ one of the most successful films in Sri Lankan cinema history, Justin Belagamage has yet again presented another truly valuable and historical gift to country cinema ...

The national commemorative ceremony organised to mark 79 years of Sri Lankan Sinhala talkie cinema and 54 years since the establishment of the National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka was held recently ...

Sri Lanka is among the closest foreign countries we have, and historically, we have been very involved with it. If the Cholas conquered it, the Lankan kings aligned with the Pandyas and later joined ...

A special screening of Gamini Hewawitharana’s film “Yakada Diyaniyo” took place last week at Cinematheque in Tel Aviv, Israel, drawing a large crowd of Lankans living in the area. The event, which was ...

Nihalsinghe was noted for his versatility: as a Film Cameraman, as a film director, as a (pioneering) television director, as an administrator, as a teacher as well. He was a pioneer who introduced ...

The Sinhala version of Beena Sarwar’s international documentary ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines’, which was produced and translated into Sinhala by Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe, ...

SBS SinhalaIndependent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Sinhala-speaking Australians. SBS Learn EnglishEase into the English language and Australian culture. We make learning ...

When a bunch of young film enthusiasts in northern Sri Lanka decided to build a library of cinema, they were certain about two things. Their resources would not be limited by geography, language, or ...