POLONNARUWA CONFLUENCE IN ART & ARCHITECTURE  

'Shared Sanctities' - a documentary film series by Sujeewa de Silva and Hasini Haputhanthri explores several heritage sites in Sri Lanka with new eyes. The nine documentaries feature an eminent panel of experts – archaeologists, architects, art historians, historians, anthropologists – guiding the viewer to interpret these sites and their histories with a fresh perspective. 'Shared Sanctities' consist of the film series and a book of the same name (https://ices.lk/wp-content/uploads/20.... Together it seeks to build a counter-narrative to the current narrative on inter-religious and inter-ethnic relations in Sri Lanka. The current dominant narratives tend to be hegemonic, exclusivist and rooted in violence against the ‘other’. This documentary series presents a more nuanced narrative around art, architecture and religion and showcases shared religious traditions, monuments and art as evidence of shared cultural history that goes back a long way.