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In the immediate aftermath of the Sri Lankan insurrection of 1971, while the leadership of the JVP, the insurgent political party, was incarcerated, some JVP activists made attempts to revive their movement. A young Catholic nun in a convent in Colombo, exposed to these activists, develops an empathy with the JVP cause, fired by her sense of injustice. Her engagement with these revolutionaries, soon joined by their leaders who were released from prison in late 1977, takes her on a tumultuous spiritual and political roller-coaster where she finds her loyalties leaning more towards party activism than her religious obligations. Finally, she reaches a crisis point and is compelled to make a choice between the two, but she continues to question her own decisions in the context of a rapidly changing political landscape in the 1980s and a resultant dramatic shift in the JVP’s outlook and strategy.
90 mts | Docu-drama | English and Sinhala with English Subtitles | Directed by Udan Fernando | Released in Colombo in Sept -24.
No other / Sister and sister : Chatra Bopa's description
Some activists struggle to hold their life tip while the leaders of the Janatha Liberation Front are imprisoned despite the heat of 71 rebellion. A Catholic virgin sister of a Colombo virgin who is close to them, has shaken her own experience of social injustice and the JVP.
She, who is involved in revolutionary activities with the release of the late 1977 leaders, was swinged in a spiritual and political scissor swing. The one who picks one of two in its economy is inclined to party activity. But soon be motivated to question its decision because of the seriously changing JVP face and strategy on the 80s political map.
90 minutes / report / English and Sinhala
( with sub headlines )
A direction by Uddan Fernando