Forsaken Land

Theatrical Release Date: 2006 06 23 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 717119989842

Studio: New Yorker Video

Summary: A home-guard serviceman assigned the task of standing watch over a barren no-man's-land begins to experience an existential crisis after years of lonely service find weariness taking hold in the debut feature from writer/director Vimukthi Jayasundara. Anura (Mahendra Perera) is a loyal soldier tainted by the tedium of a service he has forgotten how to define. His only company at the remote outpost is an alcoholic soldier named Piyasiri (Hemasiri Liyanage), whom he sees in passing as they trade shifts. Anura finds that even the prankish behavior of the infrequently passing soldiers isn't enough to offset the numbing stillness of his eternal wait anymore. Even at home, the inertia of the emotionless landscape persists, and between disconnected sexual encounters with his disinterested wife, Lata (Nilupili Jayawardena), detached conversations with his single sister, Soma (Kaushalya Fernando), and the heart-breaking dejection of their young charge, Batti (Pumidika Sapurni Peiris), it appears as if, in this war-torn wasteland, hope is nothing more than forgotten emotion and routine is the only nourishment for a collection of sad, starved souls. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best First Film – Cannes Film Festival Film Presented – Cannes Film Festival

Features: The Land of Silence (short film)
Trailer
Dolby Digital 5.1
Enhanced for 16x9 TVs
Optional English Subtitles
Scene selections
Downloadable PDF press kit
Booklet: Essay by Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lanken human rights activist

Forsaken Land

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 09/02/2008

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 108 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitles: English

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Forsaken Land
1. Credits [:00]
2. Awakening [:00]
3. Going for a Spin [:01]
4. Peeping [:00]
5. Soma's Plan [:00]
6. In the Air [:00]
7. If I Grow Up [3:06]
8. A Woman Has Died [12:50]
9. Little Bird [14:18]
10. Caught [5:49]
11. Strike! [9:45]
12. Radio Bulletin [8:58]

Cast and Crew: Philippe Avril  Executive Producer 
Philippe Avril  Producer 
Vimukthi Jayasundara  Director 
Vimukthi Jayasundara  Screenwriter 
Nadeeka Guruge  Composer (Music Score) 
Mahendra Perera  Actor 
Kaushalya Fernando  Actor 
Nilupili Jayawardena  Actor 
Hemasiri Liyanage  Actor 
Soumya Liyanage  Actor 
Pumidika Sapurni Peiris  Actor 

Country: France,Sri Lanka