Me Mage Sandai

A Sinhalese soldier (Saumya Liyanage) fighting against rebels struggling for Tamil independence is left behind by his company one night. While hiding in a bunker, he's discovered by a Tamil woman (Dilhani Ekanayake), who eventually get sexually abused by him. Due to stockholm syndrome, she proceeds to follow the soldier after he comes to the realization that his company isn't coming back, and he decides to leave the fighting behind and return home.

However, the soldier's return doesn't bring much joy to his village—his family, who imagined he was dead, was counting on his pension to help them dig their way out of poverty, while his fiancée refuses to have anything to do with a deserter. With no one willing to help him in his village, in his despair, the soldier finds himself turning to the Tamil woman for affection.^[8]

• Dilhani Ekanayake
• Saumya Liyanage
• W. Jayasiri
• Linton Semage
• Hemasiri Liyanage
• Kaushalya Fernando
• Sunil Hettiarachchi
• Anoma Janadari

• 2001 Singapore International Film Festival^[9]
  • SFC Young Cinema Award^[10]
  • NETPAC/FIPRESCI
• 2001 Tokyo International Film Festival^[11]
  • Asian Film Award - Special Mention