British Council Sri Lanka promotes contemporary and innovative UK film to audiences in Sri Lanka, working in both lead and supporting roles on showcases, workshops, festivals, conferences, tours, residences and virtual projects. We also collaborate with artists and other cultural organisations: building skills, capacity and cultural awareness, creating access to audiences and markets, and promoting international partnership and creative exchange.

Our aims and objectives

• Help build and develop relationships between the UK and Sri Lanka in order to foster partnership, mutual understanding and tolerance
• Challenge stereotypes and attempt to change out-of date perceptions of the UK
• Promote contemporary UK creativity and innovation
• Present the UK in all its diversity and multiculturalism

Our target audiences

Our main target audience is young adults - roughly defined as being aged between 16 and 35, but we also frequently engage with older and younger audiences, depending on the population demographic in the particular country or region. What we programme depends very much on audience taste and experience, considerations of language and cultural sensibility and current perceptions of the UK. Our UK arts team and arts officers in each region have extensive knowledge of all these factors and continually update this knowledge through dialogue with our partners, advisers and contacts.

Britfilms.com
British Council Film department in the UK manages www.britfilms.com which is our main online resource of essential information for the British film industry. This website also has an illustrated online catalogue containing details of the latest British films - plus an archive of previous years. You can browse the catalogue by features, shorts, documentaries or animation. Alternatively, you can search the catalogue by title, director, genre, year, plot synopsis, cast, production company and crew. For more information please visit www.britfilms.com

PAST EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Given below are some of the key activities in the rest past which the British Council Sri Lanka has been involved in. Please click on the respective activity for more information

European Film Festival 2010

This was the third consecutive year that this festival took place in Sri Lanka and the organising committee was chaired by the British Council. For the first time, the film festival was extended beyond Colombo, to Kandy, Jaffna and Galle, providing the great opportunity for movie lovers all over Sri Lanka to enjoy a collection of various, contemporary and classic European films. This festival is a shared international cultural experience that aims to promote a friendly relationship and to increase the mutual understanding between European Nations and Sri Lanka. For more information please click here.

European Film Festival 2009

This festival was a collaborative project involving the European Union Delegation, British Council, Goethe Institut, Alliance Francaise, the French, Dutch, Swiss, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish Embassies and Spanish, Slovak and Belgian Consulates in Colombo along with the BMICH and the National Film Corporation. In addition to the 35mm film festival at the BMICH, a DVD film festival also took place simultaneously. For information please click here.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

For information on upcoming film related activities please click here