Original name: Gaadi
English name: Children of the Sun
Year: 2019
Run time: 103'
Language:Sinhala
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Sri Lanka
Director: Prasanna Vithanage

Producer: Sandya Salgado, Alan McAlex, Ajay Rai, H D Premasiri, PrasannaVithanage
Cast: Sajitha Anuththara, Dinara Punchihewa, Shyam Fernando
Screenplay: Prasanna Vithanage
Cinematographer: Rajeev Ravi
Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad
Sound Designer:  Tapas Nayak
Music Composer: K Krishna Kumar
Costume Designer:  Janaka Ullandupitiya, Akuramboda Piyathissa, Buddhi Sanjaya Edirisinghe
Production Designer: Dhammika Hewaduwaththa
Production Company:  Film Island, Jar Pictures, Prasanna Vithanage Productions
World Sales:  CEL Theatres
World Sales Phone:+94 112 478 752
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Festivals:
Busan IFF 2019
Kerala IFF 2019
Selected  Filmography:
2018  Her. Him. The Other
2012  With You, Without You
2003  August Sun
1997  Walls Within
1991  Fire on Ice
Director’s Biography:
Prasanna Vithanage is one of Sri Lanka's most notable filmmakers. He directed his first film Ice on Fire (1992). This film won nine OCIC (Sri Lanka) awards which included the Best Director award. Since then He has gained national & international popular and critical acclaim for his work. In 1994 he wrote and directed Dark Night of the Soul followed by Walls Within, Death on a Full Moon Day and August Sun among others. These films have gone on to win various National and International Awards and are widely screened throughout the world.   
Synopsis:  In 1814, Ceylon(now Sri Lanka), with its beautiful nature in the Indian Ocean, is facing a period of upheaval about to become part of the British Empire. The British intervene in tensions seeking conspiracy between the royal family from South Indian descendant and the Buddhist noblemen, but the plan fails. The family members of the aristocracies are captured by the royal army, and are forced to commit suicide. Young woman Tikiri chooses to get remarried with an untouchable, Vijaya, but she cannot change her attitude as a former upper class. She brings crisis in the community eventually leading both to go deep in the mountains in exile. As many villages are devastated by either royal army or British troops, survivors have to cope with the periods of chaos when basic security is not guaranteed.