Re:Vision: Gehenu Lamai (The Girls)

Sumitra Peries’s Gehenu Lamai [The Girls] —the first feature directed by a woman in Sri Lanka—is a close observation of a life shrinking. So much weight is placed on girls worldwide, and the girls of Gehenu Lamai are no different. Expected to care-give, earn, and behave respectably no matter the cost, the central girls of the film, sisters Kusum and Soma, bear much responsibility. Despite very different approaches to their constraints, some outcomes cannot be avoided.

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