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A cradle for mother
(Iran / Farsi /2013 / 80 mins / Betacam SP / Colour)
directed  by Panahbarkhoda Rezaee (Iran)

The SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Film Festival held in Colombo, has over the last two years gained momentum for promoting some of the best films from the SAARC Region. Awards are given as incentive to continue producing good films for the region. The Festival will take place at the National Film Corporation Cinema Hall, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

A publication titled "The Early Sri Lankan Cinema and its Association with the South Indian Film Industry" launched on the 24th February, 2013 at the Auditorium of the National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. A joint publication of Asian Film Centre, Sri Lanka and NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema), this book makes an effort to trace the exciting history of the early period of Sri Lankan cinema through  interviews conducted with the surviving directors  of the early Sinhala films including  A.B. Raj and K.S. Sethumadhavan, It also includes lengthy interviews conducted with Film News Anandan and Randor Guy, the noted historians and archivists  of South Indian cinema.

When ISaw You (Lamma shoftak) 
(Palestine, Jordan,Arab Emirates, & Greece / Arabic /2012 / 93 mins / DCP/ Colour) 
directed  by Anemarie Jacir  (Palestine/Jordan)

Donald Richie, the world-famous film scholar,specialist of Japanese cinema and culture, passed away of heart failure in Tokyo on February 19 at the age of 88.His voluminous body of work (books, articles,films…) is a living tribute and a very long love letter to Japan. He arrived in1947 with the US occupation force, and wrote mainly on films for the Pacific Stars and Stripes. His love story with Japan never ended, until his last days in Tokyo, where he lived in a small apartment in Ueno.

With You Without You (Oba Ekka Oba Nethiva)   
Sri Lanka / India / 90 mins/2012/Colour/35mm) 
directed by Prasanna Vithanage - Sri Lanka 

What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love
(Yang Tidak Dibicarakan Ketika Membicarakan Cinta)
(Indonesia/Colour/DCP/101 mins/2013)
directed by Mouly Surya  - IndonesiaNetpac  Jury:    
Ed Lejano (Philippines) - Chairperson
Jo Ji-Hoon - (South Korea)
Massoud Bakhshi (Iran)

HABIBI (Habibi Rasak Kharban) 
(Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head) 
(Palestine / 2011 / colour / 85 mts) 
directed by Ms.Susan Youssef 

 For its thought-provoking and ambitious inquiry into the colonial past of Maguindanao and the director's personal history through an allegorical tale of physical and psychological imprisonment.

Ithramaathram 
(India/2012/35mm/Colour/98mts./Malayalam) 
directed by K. Gopinathan