Film
Cinema on Tour

Thu, 25.10.2018 -
Mon, 12.11.2018
Monaragala, Mullaitivu, Badulla, Bibile, Mannar and Trincomalee.

At the end of October, the second edition of Cinema on Tour starts in Sri Lanka. The Cinema on Tour program enables film screenings in rural communities that otherwise are excluded from the access to latest films and cinemas in general. This year the screenings take place at the following dates and places:

Batticaloa: October 31, Swamy Vipulananda Institute
Mannar: November 3, DS Office Auditorium
Vavuniya: November 4, Hotel Princess Rose
Mullaitivu: November 5, Vallipuram, Devipuram, Suthanthirapuram
Ampara: November 10, Coop Inn
Monaragala: November 12, Buddhama, Ethimale, Thissapura

Cinema on Tour is supported by various cultural institutes. The Goethe-Institut will contribute the German production of Andreas Dresen The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter to the program of Cinema on Tour.
 
The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter

Director: Andreas Dresen, colour, 102 min., 2015/2016

Timm Thaler is a boy who really has nothing to laugh about. His mother is dead, and soon his father is, too. Still, he laughs often and gladly, and his laughter is infectious to those around him. This brings the devilish Baron Lefuet to come up with a plan: Timm should sell him his laughter in exchange for never again losing a bet. The poor kid becomes immensely rich – and poor at the same time, because he has to give himself over to the evil betting partner. The only salvation: were Lefuet (in German, an anagram for "Devil") to lose a bet with him, Timm would get his laughter back. Andreas Dresen has taken the 1962 bestseller by James Krüss, which was also a hit when adapted for TV in 1979, and restaged the story with lots of imagination and effort. The final insight: there is nothing worth selling your soul for.