After many months Goethe-Institut is reopen for the Film Screening. The short film, scripted and directed by Udan Fernando will be screened at the outset.His Film is'A Covid Honeymoon'.
To enable the screening while also following official and recommend heath measures, we have limited the number of participants for each screening to 30 pax but are screening the films on three consecutive days. 28 – 30 July at 6.00 pm.
Prior registration is required, so please book your seat by sending an Email with your date of choice to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , you will receive a registration number in return. Please come be seated before 5.50 p.m. on the day of the screening.
'A Covid Honeymoon' & other short documentaries in quarantine by Udan Fernando
Synopsis
With their hard-saved $1,000, a young Sri Lankan couple fly to Singapore for a two- week honeymoon, with little or no idea about Covid19. The outbreak spikes during their honeymoon and a lockdown gets imposed. The two-week honeymoon becomes a two-month ordeal with no flights to return and nowhere to stay and with only $ 30 left in hand.
BACKGROND TO THE FILM
Having stayed three months in Singapore due to the closure of airports during the Covid 19 lock-down, the director, Udan Fernando, finally finds a seat in a special repatriation flight to Colombo. On the eve of his departure, he hears a story that hits him like a virus. It is this story that preoccupies him throughout his two-week quarantine term at a government centre run by the military in a remote area in Eastern Sri Lanka. Amidst the constant chatter of the fellow quarantine-mates in a small dormitory, the many upheavals at the quarantine centre and the difficult circumstances facing him, the director seeks refuge in a corner bed that becomes his working, thinking and dining space. He conceptualises an imaginative along the basic true experience, that turns into a script. Upon being declared 'Negative', the director launches the production of the film. A film born/created in a situation of overlapping crises.
CAST AND CREW
Starring Xavier Kanishka Antoinette Thilakshini Ratnayake Chandana Prasad Suriyaarachchi
Director of Photography: Sameera Weerasekara.
Editor: Lahiru Kanishka
Colorist: Marlon Jayans
Make-up: Mananuwan Rupasinghe
Sound Engineering & Music Arrangement: Lahiru Kanishka
Assistant Director: Yoshitha Perera
Concept, Script & Director: Udan Fernando