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The world’s most prestigious institution for culture, the UNESCO will honour the doyen of Sri Lankan cinema, Dr Lester James Peries by screening his award winning film Gamperaliya at Salle 1 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on April 6, the 90th birthday of the great film director.
UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura and Sri Lanka Ambassador Lionel Fernando have extended invitations to over 150 ambassadors based in Paris, senior French bureaucrats and French and Sri Lankan film lovers for the screening jointly organized by UNESCO and the Embassy of Sri Lanka in collaboration with Heliotrope Films headed by Laurent Aleonard, who has restored the print of Gamperaliya. |
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