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Digital Seoul Film Festival, film commentator
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in 2005. He pursued a diploma in filmmaking at the Sri Lanka
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Currently, Pushpakumara is the designer of the course and the Course
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as "scrupulously non-partisan, deeply humane, sexually candid, coolly modernist in style and almost indecently beautiful".
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under its
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was also selected by the Nipkow Art
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and post-production support from the Hubert Bals Fund and
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921:Categories
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