INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sumitra Peries, will be screened next week in the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 13 to May 24
Film Heritage Foundation in association with the Dr
Lester James Peries and Sumitra Peries Foundation
It was funded by a grant provided by the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and the Embassy of France in India, under the
She was decorated as a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government.Born in 1934, she emerged to stardom in the
Peries Foundation has been selected for a world premiere at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival 2025.The film has been restored under the
Heritage Foundation, the Embassy of France and the French Institute in India and the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives,
premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, 2023 and 2024.Recognized as the Outstanding Film of the Year at the 1978 London Film
sisters in a Sri Lankan village whose romantic dreams and aspirations are crushed by the class barrier and the conflict between tradition
The poetic black and white imagery beautifully captures the confusion and fragility of adolescent love and yearning coupled with an
outstanding performance by a 16 year-old Wasanthi Chathurani as Kusum in her debut role.
