Best Movies and Documentaries about Sri Lanka
Dheepan 2016
A winner of Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. Three strangers pretend to be a family in order to escape war in their home country of Sri Lanka. Arriving in France full of hopes for a better life, they face new struggles living in tough suburb of Paris.
Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 2012
Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve travels around the edge of the Indian Ocean. In Episode 5 he travels from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh.
The Third Wave 2007
After 2004 Tsunami disaster, a group of independent volunteers travel to Sri Lanka, for what was initially planned to be a two week trip, but find themselves in charge of a refugee camp with over 3000 people.
Crayons and Paper 2009
Documentary about the effect of war on children. The film features drawings made by children in Sri Lanka and Darfur.
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields by Channel 4
Powerful and distressing documentary about the last few weeks of Sri Lankan civil war.