Republic of Amnesia is a deeply humane documentary that confronts the power of memory, silence, and resistance. The film works both for those familiar with the outlines of the Aragalaya protest movement that swept Sri Lanka in 2022, and for those for whom it is no more than the distant memory of an unfamiliar news story. The film hears voices too often erased from official history, revealing the personal cost of political repression and collective forgetting through storytelling that is elegant and profoundly moving.

Simon Long, former Asia editor, The Economist