Machan

by Uberto Pasolini

What the fuck is handball?

Stanley, a fruit seller with a penchant for failed schemes in Sri Lanka, is behind on his bills and constantly dodging creditors. Stanley's sister plans to leave her family to work as a maid in the Middle East. His kid brother sees petty crime as a better prospect than school.His handsome friend sells gigolo services to female tourists. Anything to get by. Stanley dreams of going abroad, where, he muses,“Everything will be new; even I'll be new.” When he learns that Germany will invite international teams to a handball competition in Bavaria, he hatches a scheme. None of his friends know the game, but that doesn't prevent Stanley from recruiting them into his new Sri Lankan National Handball Federation as a pretense to get German visas...

Genre / Language / Length
Comedy / Sinhalese / 109 minutes
Original title
Machan
directed by
Uberto Pasolini (STILL LIFE, THE FULL MONTY)
produced by
A Redwave Film produced by Studio Urania, Babelsberg Film, Shakathi Films
Cast
  • Dharmapriya Dias
  • Gihan de Chickera
  • Dharshan Dharmaraj
  • Namal Jayasinghe
  • Sujeewa Priyalal
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