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Burning Birds

Davena vihagun

2016

Sanjeewa Pushpakumara

Anoma Janadari, Mahendra Perera, Samanalee Fonseka, Chandani Senavirathne, Dharmapriya Dias

6.7

57

Drama 1989, Sri Lanka is still mired in Civil War. After the arrest and murder of her husband by a local militia that accused him of subversive activities, Kusul has to support her eight children and her harsh mother-in-law on her own. Faced with the contempt of a patriarchal society, Kusul is determined to do anything to save her family, hammering stones in a quarry, clearing blood and body parts in a slaughterhouse. However, she is soon on ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Clarence Tsui The Hollywood Reporter	"Janadari delivers a powerfully rugged tour de force (...) Burning Birds is a blistering social and artistic statement."

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