GAADI – CHILDREN OF THE SUN

From acclaimed Sri Lankan auteur Prasanna Vithanage comes this sweeping historical drama of imperial politics, religion, caste, gender and impossible love. Set during Britain’s repressive 19th-century rule of the colony when it was known as Ceylon, GAADI begins with a collaborationist English agent convincing the local Sinhala Buddhist nobility to overthrow the rival Tamil king. The subsequent military disaster forces a Sinhala noblewoman, Tikiri (Dinara Punchihewa in her debut role) to choose between suicide and marriage to a low-caste outcast Vijaya (Sri Lankan star Sajitha Anuththara, in an irresistible performance.)