Anoma Janadari is a Sri Lankan actress and author. She played leading roles in Burning Birds, Flying with One Wing (Thani Thatuwen Piyabanna) and This Is My Moon (Me Mage Sandai).
While working as a mechanic to support a wife at home, Manju struggles to overcome every attempt made at discovering their assigned sex.
Since her fish salesman husband was killed by militant thugs for his political affiliations, Kusum has been left alone to support her eight children and her mother-in-law. She does this by breaking rocks in a nearby quarry. But of course, things can get worse and they do in this heartfelt but gruelling litany of suffering.
Set in a Northern border village during the Sri Lankan Civil War, a Sinhalese soldier meets a Tamil girl in the battlefield. The soldier leaves the army with the girl, and goes back to his village. The arrival of the Tamil girl into this predominantly Sinhala village causes a stir within the community, where they collectively decide to send her to a refugee camp. "This is My Moon" is a controversial examination of village life, where rural myths are shattered to reveal a deeper reality of a society torn apart by war.
