Saroja
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Cast & Crew
Somaratne Dissanayake
Janaka Kumbukage
Neeta Fernando
Pramudi Karunarathne
Nithyavani Kandasamy
Mervin Maheshan
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Synopsis
For the past 20 years, the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka has been troubled by ethnic conflict. Government forces continue to battle the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate Tamil homeland on the island. Sundaram is a Tamil who was forced to join the Tiger soldiers. During a battle he is badly injured, but manages to escape into the jungle with his 7-year-old daughter Saroja. When her father can walk no further, Saroja appears on the outskirts of a Sinhalese village and is discovered by 8-year-old Varuni, daughter of the local schoolteacher. Varuni secretly brings food and water to Saroja and her father, and begs her parents to bring them to the house. Her mother takes an extremist approach and advocates handing them over to the army. But Varuni's father, as a humanist, believes that the Tamils have an equal right to live on the island and that not all Tamils are Tigers. He conceals the Tamil family in his house, and he hopes to hide this secret from the village.
Director
Somaratne Dissanayake
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Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 24 - June 17, 2001.
