Since 2009, several Sinhala films, such as Matha (2012) by Boodee Keerthisena, and Ini Avan (2012) by Asoka Handagama, have revisited the memory of the last phase of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war. Using as a touchstone Sarath Weerasekara's Gamani (2011), a film that claims to be based on the “true story” about the LTTE's massacre of a group of Sinhalese villagers, this paper explores the “uses and abuses” of memory (Jelin) in state—sponsored post—war cinema. Through an examination of the film, ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
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