THE EYES OF SUMMER
Gimhanaye Netra
Directed by Rajee Samarasinghe- Sri Lanka, USA
- Arthouse, Coming of Age, Documentary, Drama, Experimental, Fantasy, International, Social Issues, Spiritual, Women
- 2020
- 15 mins
- Los Angeles premiere
tweet
shareFilmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A
Shot in the filmmaker’s mother’s village in southern Sri Lanka in 2010, immediately after the civil war. Together with family members, he developed an improvised story around a shy girl who becomes friends with a spirit, based on similar encounters from his mother’s childhood.
CREDITS
Director: Rajee Samarasinghe
Writer: Rajee Samarasinghe
Producer: Rajee Samarasinghe, Delini Malka Samarasinghe
Executive Producer: Milani Samarasinghe
Director of Photography: Rajee Samarasinghe
Editor: Rajee Samarasinghe
Production Designer: Rajee Samarasinghe
Sound Designer: Rajee Samarasinghe, Christina C Nguyen
Cast: Shalani Dilasha, Malka Malshani, Lanka Rajapaksa
Plays in
Spirited Away
Guided by shamans and ancestral spirits, we traverse the line between the living and the dead, tradition and transformation, fiction and non-fiction. — Udval Altangerel
