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A LETTER OF FIRE
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Asoka Handagama
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A prestigious family is shaken after the twelve year old son is involved accidentally in the murder of a prostitute. The affair causes a sensation, all the more as the boys mother, a magistrate, happens to be in charge of the case. The boy is given shelter by the safety guard of a museum. Through the media interviews on TV, the boy witnesses his mother giving instructions to the police to apprehend the murderer. This event changes the mental balance of the boy: he loses faith in his overprotective mother and gets attached to the guards daughter. The tension reaches a peak when, in a moment of cathartic confession, the mother reveals the secrets of her familys morbid past.
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Screenplay Asoka Handagama
Photography (colour) Channa Deshapriya
Editing Ravindra Guruge
Music Harsha Makalanda
ICast Piyumi Samaraweera, Ravindra Randeniya, Saumya Liyanage, Jayani Senanayake, Isham Samzudeen
Production Be-Positive (Colombo), Héliotrope Films (Paris)
Year of production 2005
Running time 136'
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Asoka Handagama
Asoka Handagama was born in 1962, in the South Centre of Sri Lanka. After studying Mathematics at the University of Kelaniya (near Colombo), he obtained a M.Sc in Development Economics in U.K. in 1995. He is currently back in Sri Lanka, employed at senior management level at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. His films are: Moon Lady (1992), Moon Hunt (1996), This is My Moon (2000) presented at the first edition of Asiaticafilmmediale, Flying with One Wing (2002). His films have been awarded in several festivals.
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