Sanjeewa Dissanayake

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A mother and son, a young pregnant woman and a schoolgirl experience the harsh realities of war in Sri Lanka as they also struggle to survive their own personal battles.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Amila comes from a small village in Sri Lanka. After losing his parents, he moves to Colombo. He works as a construction worker in a Chinese building site and looks after his four siblings. His sister Inoka suffers from a congenital heart defect and the only way to save her is an urgent and expensive surgery to be performed in India. While Amila is trying to find the money he needs, he just meets the wrong person at the right time, and gets caught up in the child trafficking business…

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Girawa

Ruwan goes on a traumatic, suspenseful and life changing journey trying to make his expensive maiden feature film, having not done any sort of creative work before. In the post war Sri Lanka, there exists an atmosphere of uncertainty and quick profit which Ruwan and his buddies try to engage on. In doing so, everyone around his life is getting sucked into this vortex of crises. Extreme sacrifices are made by everyone.