House of My Fathers (2018)

Original title

නොමියෙන මතකය

Directed by

Suba Sivakumaran

Genre

drama film, war film, romance film, thriller film

Country

Sri Lanka

Runtime

1h 40m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A multilingual drama set in Sri Lanka. It follows characters navigating personal and political turmoil. The story deals with family and conflict.

somberreflectivetensepersonalslow-pacedemotionalgrittylayered

What happens

House of My Fathers (Sinhala: නොමියෙන මතකය) is a 2019 Sri Lankan multilingual drama thriller film directed by Suba Sivakumaran as her debut film and co-produced by director himself with Dominique Welinski and Santi Pathak for Palmyrah Talkies. It stars Steve De La Zilwa and Darshan Dharmaraj along with Bimal Jayakodi and Dasun Pathirana. Music composed by Forest Christenson. The film was premiered in New Currents competition at Busan International Film Festival. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics. The film is the first Sri Lankan film acquired international rights by Asian Shadows, a Hong Kong–based sales agency. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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