Flying Fish (film)
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| Directed by | Sanjeewa Pushpakumara |
| Produced by | Manohan Nanyakkara & Sanjeewa Pushpakumara |
| Screenplay by | Sanjeewa Pushpakumara & Chinthana Dharamadasa |
| Story by | Sanjeewa Pushpakumara |
| Starring | Kaushalya Fernando Rathnayaka Marasinghe Chaminda Sampath Jayaweera Gayesha Perera Siththi Mariyam Sanjeewa Dissanayake Sumathy Sivamohan Nilanka Dahanayake Thissa Bandaranayaka Wasanthy Ranwala Mohammed Ali Rajabdeen |
| Music by | Tharindu Priyankara de Silva |
| Cinematography | Vishwajith Karunarathna |
| Edited by | Ajith Ramanayake |
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119 minutes |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Language | Sinhala and Tamil |
Flying Fish (Sinhalese: ඉගිල්ලෙන මලුවො) is a 2011 anthology film directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Sanjeewa Pushpakumara. It was produced with the financial support of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The film made its world premiere on January 28, 2011, as part of the Rotterdam festival's Tiger Awards Competition.Film has been noted for its political value, beautiful cinematography, long takes, and shocking violence
The film draws on stories from the director's life in his hometown of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, where Flying Fish was shot.
The film weaves together three narratives set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
A young Sinhalese village woman falls in love with an army soldier and becomes pregnant. The couple attempts to abort the child but fails. While they are making love in the ruins of an abandoned building, her father sees them. While he does not confront her about what he has seen, the scene haunts him continuously. As the war intensifies, adult villagers are recruited into the civil defense force to protect the village border. Among these recruits is her father, who is punished and humiliated by the soldiers from her lover's platoon for not being on guard one day. Demoralized, he shoots himself inside an empty bunker. Meanwhile, the soldier and his platoon receive a transfer to a distant posting, leaving the woman in great agony. Tortured by her father's suicide and her rage at the soldier who leaves her pregnant, she flees the village.
A recently widowed Sinhalese woman lives with her eight children in a remote village where the armed tension between the government army and the L.T.T.E., or Tamil Tigers escalates. Stricken with extreme poverty, she becomes a curd vendor. She also becomes involved in an affair with a young man who owns a shop in the village. Her eldest son is in his first year of high school. To support the family, he works in the local fish market selling fish. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a girl at his school. He is humiliated when their relationship is revealed to the school. Meanwhile, rumors spread about his mother’s affair. One day, the boy sees his mother having sexual intercourse with her lover in a broken house. The enraged boy stabs his mother in front of his siblings the same evening.
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