Peries lived a life of travel and adventure before enrolling in film school in Brixton and going on to become one of the major, politically conscious figures in Sri Lankan cinema.
How did Sri Lanka, where the revolutionary socialist left was so strong, descend into the politics of ethno-national chauvinism? That left was in large part itself culpable. Dan Katz tells the tragic story.
Peries lived a life of travel and adventure before enrolling in film school in Brixton and going on to become one of the major, politically conscious figures in Sri Lankan cinema.
How did Sri Lanka, where the revolutionary socialist left was so strong, descend into the politics of ethno-national chauvinism? That left was in large part itself culpable. Dan Katz tells the tragic story.