PAANGSHU

at Montreal Film Festival

Award-winning filmmaker Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s newest Sinhala movie ‘Paangshu’ was recently screened at 2018 Montreal World Film Festival as its official selection.the story is woven around a mother who seeks justice for her son abducted by paramilitary men during the 1988/89 insurgency in Sri Lanka. Nita Fernando, Nadie Kammellaweera and Jagath Manuwarna play the key roles in the movie. Babanona (Nita Fernando), a launderer belonging to one of the lowest castes in Sri Lanka is summoned to an identification parade where she identifies Lionel as one of the paramilitary men who abducted her son during the 1988/89 insurgency. While Indika (Jagath Manuwarna), the young public prosecutor shows little or no interest in helping Babanorna finding her missing son, Namalee (Nadie Kammallaweera), the pregnant wife of the paramilitary man seeks forgiveness from the launderer. As the prolonging hearings in the dilapidated courthouse continues for months, shameful secrets are gradually unearthed by the defeated rebels, victorious soldiers and those who were crushed in between.