Asoka Handagama

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Asoka Handagama was born in 1962 in South Sri Lanka. He studied mathematics, before working for Sri Lanka’s Central Bank. He is considered as one of the “Third Generation” in Sri Lankan cinema. Asoka Handagama's entry to filmmaking was via theatre and television. His first two plays gained immediate recognition as they won several awards, but he had his true break-through with Magatha. He started to direct movies for television. His debut feature Moon Lady won many awards but he gained international recognition with This is my Moon (2000)

Most Popular Asoka Handagama Trailers

Total trailers found: 11

A Letter of Fire Trailer (2005)

25 September 2005

A schoolboy and his friend are caught at school looking at pornography on the computer. Punished, they wrongly believe that the police are going to arrest them so they hide in an abandoned building and as the boys feel cornered, and fearing for their lives, one of them accidentally kills a prostitute with a dagger thinking she was a mugger.

The Dawning of the Day Trailer (2021)

30 October 2021

Pablo arrives in British Ceylon from Burma to flee a traumatic relationship that had changed from love into passionate obsession.

Let Her Cry Trailer (2016)

12 May 2016

When an alluring young undergrad becomes infatuated with her nearly retired professor, she stirs up the man's humdrum home life in a most unusual way.

Him, Here, After Trailer (2012)

21 December 2012

Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war.

Rani Trailer (2025)

30 January 2025

The film follows Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu's relentless pursuit of justice after the tragic abduction and murder of her son, Richard de Zoysa, a journalist, writer, and human rights activist, in 1990.

Her. Him. The Other Trailer (2018)

27 February 2018

Three Sri Lankan filmmakers renowned for their internationally acclaimed films based on the Sri Lankan civil war, join in to make one film to express their views on post-war reality.

Moon Lady Trailer (1998)

22 August 1998

A Sri Lankan movie

My Kind of Hero Trailer (2010)

10 December 2010

An adolescent boy with no birth certificate denied access to free education. He overwhelms the whole country and achieves what he has been dreaming in daylight.

This Is My Moon Trailer (2000)

09 December 2000

Set in a Northern border village during the Sri Lankan Civil War, a Sinhalese soldier meets a Tamil girl in the battlefield.

Asandhimitta Trailer (2019)

22 March 2019

A renowned filmmaker receives a mysterious call from an old college mate in the middle of the night. Asandhimitta, whom he recalls as a large and voluptuous woman, asks him to make a film based on her life.

Flying with One Wing Trailer (2002)

27 September 2002

While working as a mechanic to support a wife at home, Manju struggles to overcome every attempt made at discovering their assigned sex.