Riverstone
Southeast Asian Premiere
Lalith Rathnayake Sri Lanka 2025 119 min NC16 (Coarse Language)
A police convoy stretches into a relentless yet meditative road trip in this intense study of character, conscience and conviction.
Through the rolling mountains of the Knuckles range in Sri Lanka, a landscape shaped by colonial violence and unforgiving geographies, three police officers escort a young prisoner to his village, periodically distracted by their personal worries. As the conflicts and conundrums of the police officers’ jobs start to intensify, the prisoner becomes a mirror of their hypocrisies. At the same time, the divisions between men, between Tamil and Sinhalese, between those who wield different levels of power, become more complicated, revealing the potential for humanity and connectedness in the face of state violence. Their journey turns into a meditation on duty, morality and the quiet burdens that shape human lives.
Synopsis Writer: Vicki Yang
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
6 Dec, Sat 2:00PM / 119 min
Golden Village Bugis, Hall 5
Q&A with Filmmaker(s)
7 Dec, Sun 11:00AM / 119 min
Golden Village Bugis, Hall 4
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Riverstone
රිවස්ටර්න්
Lalith Rathnayake
Sri Lanka
2025
Sinhala
English
119 min
NC16 (Coarse Language)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Lalith Rathnayake
Drawing on Buddhist philosophies in his storytelling, Sri Lankan director Lalith Rathnayake has been a script writer for movies and TV mini-series over 26 years. He follows his award-winning debut The Other Half (2019) with his second feature, Riverstone. It picked up the award for Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography at Shanghai.
Shyam Fernando,
Randika Gunathilaka,
Mahendra Perera,
Priyantha Sirikumara
Prabath Roshan,
Nimanthi Porage
