‘Frangipani’ at Engendering Yahapalanaya film festival
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Recently released ‘Frangipani’ Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s film will be screened today at Engendering Yahapalanaya, a film and literary festival at Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute in Colombo.
Organised by the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka, the festival aimed at highlighting that gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights are also good governance issues.
On Sunday two other films ‘Vidiyum Munn’ (9.00 AM– 12.30 PM) and ‘India’s Daughter’ (1.30 PM– 3.30 PM) will also be screened.
Frangipani (4.00 PM and 6.30 PM) presents a story of two young men and a woman entangled in a lustful love triangle tabooed in their rapidly changing community. ‘Frangipani’ speaks out of gay people’s right to love without taking an antagonistic approach to be critical of the local cultural practices while focusing on innate human emotions that make people smile and cry, and make them pursue for the ultimate joy of love.
‘Vidiyum Munn’, a 2013 Indian Tamil thriller film directed by Balaji K. Kumar staring Pooja Umashankar as Rekha, a sex worker trying to rescue a 12-year-old girl from being forced into engaging in sex work. The journey takes us through the brutality that surrounds us, which we deliberately choose to ignore—broken homes, abuse, unfulfilled dreams, manipulation and hopelessness.
Suffragette ‘India’s Daughter’ pays tribute to the remarkable short life of “India’s Daughter” (Jyoti) and documents the brutality of her gang-rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012. It also examines the mindset of the men who committed the rape with exclusive interviews and – perhaps most importantly – it tries to shed light on the patriarchal society and culture which not only seeds but may be said even to encourage violence against women.
Admission for the screening is free and tickets can be reserved by calling FPA on 075099899.
The festival has been taking place in Colombo from February 17 to 19 and would be followed by several ‘mini-festivals’ which would take place across the country in the subsequent weeks.