Lankan film for Cannes Film Festival

Vimukthi Jayasundera's Forsaken Land (Sulanga enu Pinisa) has been selected to the Cannes International Film Festival where it will compete in the official section Uncertain Regard.

Jayasundera received the Fonds Sud Cinema grant from the French Government for this first feature film project Forsaken Land (Sulanga enu Pinisa).

Since its creation, Fonds Sud Cinema has helped more than 300 film projects around the world, the French Embassy said in a release yesterday.

Cannes International Film Festival has two official selections: The Competition and Uncertain Regard (introduced in 1978).

Each year, about 20 feature films are selected to be in the Competition, running for the Palme d'Or. Forsaken Land is also competing for the Pix de la Camera d'Or, awarded to the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes selection categories.