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Inheritance

Siblings gathered for their Mother’s 91st birthday but the prime motive of the gathering relates to their mother’s property. In the meantime, the mother goes down her memory lane reflecting on their childhood innocence. The conversation turns into a bitter quarrel and they are blissfully unaware of what they truly inherit.

  • Anomaa Rajakaruna
    Producer
  • Lanka Bandaranayake
    Co-Producer
  • Lanka Bandaranayake
    Director
    Tradition (2016)
  • Lanka Bandaranayake
    Writer
    Tradition (2016)
  • Irangani Serasingha
    Key Cast
    "Mother"
    Tradition (2016) Machan (2008), Be Safe or Be Sorry (1955) and Shades of Ash (2004).
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    උරුමය
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 24 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    3,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Sri Lanka
  • Country of Filming:
    Sri Lanka
  • Language:
    Sinhala
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Colombo International Woman's Film Festival
    Colombo
    Sri Lanka
    December 1, 2020
    World Premiere
    Jury Special
  • Agenda 14 film festival
    colombo
    Sri Lanka
    December 31, 2020
    Nomination: Best Short Film
  • Jaffna International Film Festival
    Jaffna
    Sri Lanka
    January 14, 2021
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Lanka Bandaranayake

Lanka Bandaranayke, a producer, director and an actress from Sri Lanka. She started her stage drama career in 1998, which she earned several acting and costume designing national awards. Later, she produced and directed the national award-Winning short dramas. Lanka finished her Bachelor of Arts degree (External) in 2016 from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and in 2019 she received the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) scholarship to study two months filmmaking certificate course at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television School in Kolkata.
Lanka directed, produced and wrote her first short film 'Tradition' in 2016 and the short film was screened more than 45 international film festivals including Open Doors screenings at Locarno Film Festival followed by an international and national award. In 2020, Lanka granted a fund from British council Sri Lanka under Filmmakers First program to make her short film “Inheritance”. She was a jury member for fiction in Sound & Image Challenge International Festival in 2018 and 2019 at Macau, also, she joined as a curator to the same festival in 2019.

Website
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7271750/

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Director Statement

Sometimes people may lose many things than what they gain in an unending struggle to hoard material wealth in a society that craves consumption. Unfortunately, they would be too late to realize what has been lost forever.