| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | 6:00PM - 10:00PM | External Event, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George), University of Toronto |
Asian Heritage Month Movie Showcase
FREE ADMISSION | E-REGISTRATION IS A MUST | PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 15 MINUTES IN ADVANCE TO ENSURE A SEAT
Schedule to be confirmed:
6:00-6:15 pm Welcome by Chelva Kanaganayakam, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
Opening remarks by Bandula Jayasekara, Consul General of Sri Lanka in Toronto
6:15-7:45 pm Canadian premiere screening of “Flowers in the Sky”
7:45-8:00 pm Break
8:00-9:00 pm Filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage lecture and Q&A
9:00-10:00 pm Informal gathering with light refreshments
Director Vithanage has been invited by the Tamil Studies Conference to be held on May 22-23 (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~tamils/tsc2009/)
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Year: 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Country: Sri Lanka
Language: Sinhala with English subtitles
Genre: Feature
Cast: Malani Fonseka, Nimmi Harasgama, Dilhani Ekanayake, Kaushalya Fernando, Samanalee Fonseka, Jayani Senanayake
Director: Prasanna Vithanage
Description: Sandhya Rani is an ageing film star who was once the darling of the silver screen. Having lost fame and fortune in a changing world, she now lives quietly in obscurity. She ekes out a living by renting out a room in her home to the young film and television stars of today to satisfy their illicit sexual desires.
Her daughter, Priya, whom Rani was forced to abandon when Priya was a just an infant, is now an attractive young woman who works as a hostess in a Karaoke night club. But she is also three months pregnant and infected with HIV. Rani’s guilt at what she did to her daughter in her rise to fame, drives her to search for Priya and seek forgiveness. But the form of her eventual forgiveness is not what she expected.
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