Film society
‘Does it matter now if I come or go‘ Film Screening & Discussion with Director
Anujah Fernando
Film maker, Curator & Cultural scholar
Germany.
15 October 2024
Anuya Fernando is a second-generation Tamil German (from Sri Lanka). Her film employs the migrant’s memories and letters as a primary means of narrating the story and transmitting its feelings about the Sri Lankan Tamil migration to Germany in the 1980s. It witnessed the migration and its traumatic experiences from the background of oppression against Tamil minorities in Sri Lanka.
10th Jaffna International Cinema Festival
Venues: Kailasapathy Auditorium/ Kalam / The American Corner/Regal Cinema/Jaffna Cultural Centre.
The Fine Arts Department of the University of Jaffna collaborated as an academic partner with Agenda 14, the presenters of the 10th Jaffna International Film Festival, along with other partners from many respective international and local cultural and diplomatic missions and bodies. The students of the department volunteer to conduct the event and participate in the master classes conducted by the film personalities around the world. In these classes, the students of media studies actively participated and benefited.
This year, over 60 films from 18 countries, including 10 debut films, 16 national and 16 international short films, documentary films, and retrospective films, were shown. The lifetime achievement award received by the Kanada film genius Krish Kasravalli.
3 September 2023 – 9 September 2023
Lia Gana Kubera Poopathy ‘Yazhpanam Thedchanamoorthy‘ Documentry Screening & Discussion with Director
Amshan Kumar
Film director & Writer
India.
26 April 2023
8th Jaffna International Cinema Festival
Cargill’s Square Regal Theatre, Jaffna University & Kalam, Jaffna.
30 December 2022 – 8 January 2023
7th Jaffna International Cinema Festival Awards Ceremony
Cargill’s Square Regal Theatre, Jaffna.
14 March 2022
7th Jaffna International Cinema Festival
Cargill’s Square Regal Theatre, Jaffna University & Kalam, Jaffna.
9 -14 March 2022
Borderless Cinema
Piratheepan Ravindran
Film Director,
France.
10 December 2021
Cinema: Learning and Creation
Mathisutha
Actor, Film Director & Script writer,
Sri Lanka.
12 November 2021
Need of Documentary Film and Film Making
S. Someetharan
Documentry director & Journalist
Sri Lanka.
30 October 2021
What is cinema to me?: An experience sharing
Lenin M Sivam
Film director, Producer & Writer
Canada.
09 September 2021
Lighting Design and Videography in Cinema – An experience sharing
Piratheepan Selvam
Lighting Designer
Sri Lanka.
15 August 2021
Canadian Tamil World : A feminist view
Karuppi Sumathy
Poet, Novelist, Actress, Film Director & Script Writer
Canada.
15 July 2021
Experience sharing about process of Making Documentry – ‘Yazhpanam Thedchanamoorthy – Music beyond boundaries’
Amshan Kumar
Film director & Writer
India.
17 June 2021
Talk – Contemporary Tamil Cinema: Hopes and Despairs
Professor Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
Film studies & Creative writing
Michigan State University
America.
05 June 2021
6th Jaffna International Cinema Festival: Panel Discussion “Past, Present and Future of Sri Lankan Tamil Cinema”
Panelists: Prof.Sivamohan Sumathy, Raj Sivaraj and Saminadan Wimal
Moderator: Dr.Thamotharampillai Sanathanan
25 March 2021
“Ponmani” film screening
Lenin M Sivam
07 October 2020