8. Chanda Kinnarie (1998)

Language: Sinhala

Director: Asoka Handagama

Chanda Kinnarie is based on a common social struggle, which director Asoka Handagama tries to tell in abstract form. With abstract art forms, perhaps the person who understands it best is the creator. Keeping this in mind, the film has been interpreted by different people in different ways. The innovative structure of the film scores over the content. This may have been what Handagama intended. Critic Priyath Liyanage calls the film an "adventurous effort to experiment with film form." He goes on to describe the film as "an attempt to put pictures into Das Kapital". As with all experimental films, the debate will rage on.