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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1980 - 26 July.3 August

Sections & Films

HANDAYA

Category: Edition 1980

Synopsis
Story of a pony entrusted to a boy. Together they win a race despite the cheating and damage caused by the opponents.

Original Title HANDAYA
Category Official Competition
Festival Awards Best Story (1980)
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 90'
Production Year 1979
Nationality Sri Lanka
Directed by Titus Thotawatte
Screenplay Titus Thotawatte
Main cast Sanjaya Abeygunawardana, Daya Alwis, U. Ariyavimal

 regista Titus ThotawatteTITUS THOTAWATTE

Titus Thotawatte is a Sri Lankan director and editor who made several popular Sri Lankan action movies in the 1960s and 1970s and later developed Sinhala children's programmes.
He was born Thotawattege Manual Titus de Silva on 17 April 1927 in Colombo. He was the fourth child in a family of five children, with 3 elder brothers and one younger sister. He attended Ananda College in Colombo and studied art under J.D.A. Perera and Stanley Abeysinghe and Matara Technical College.