August Sun (2003)

I was obliged to watch this film on principle since I don't think I've previously seen any pictures from Sri Lanka--and anything once!  Actually it was pretty good and was really a three-parter telling of how different people have been affected by the long running civil war -- a woman whose pilot husband was possibly being held by the rebels being helped by a London-based journalist, a war hero searching for his sister in the brothels, and a whole Muslim community forced to leave their homes.  Rather than tell each story in turn in a linear fashion, the director cleverly interwove the action focusing on first one and then the next with no loss of continuity.  By the end all three strands arrive in the same location but are totally unaware of the other characters.  My only criticism is that none of the tales were resolved -- but perhaps that's what life is really like.