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August Sun (Ira Madiyama) 105 minutes, Sri Lanka (2003),
Average user rating (2 / 21 votes)

Set in the claustrophobic climate of the Sri Lankan civil war, August Sun follows three disparate families' experiences of loss.

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August Sun: An atmosphere of fear and latent violence pervades this powerful film by one of Sri Lanka's leading directors, Prasanna Vithanage.

In Colombo, Chamari (Nimmi Harasgama) is searching for her husband, a Sinhalese pilot shot down in flight, whom she believes has been taken prisoner by the Tamil Tigers. Desperate to know the truth, she enlists a sympathetic journalist to help track him down...
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