Here are few comments… ……..
It is a quite different from any other Sinhala film produced to date. It has 
a totally new concept. In my opinion, this film is the first of its kind and presented in a way that it has its own
originality. Dialogues are rarely used and this young director has broken all traditional rules in film making in order to maintain the originality of his film.
Dr. Lester James Pieris
Asoka Handagama, the quintessential lonely artist
The Island Sunday Edition 17th June, 2001
This is the real discovery of the Jeonju Film Festival
Prf. Charles Tessan
Chairman of the Jury.
Jeonju International Film Festival
Asoka Handagama’s latest film is the one, which would take the Sinhala Cinema into the New Millennium. This is a daring film, which has the honesty,
and the courage to face a controversial issue straight in the face with a cool clinical objectivity laced however with a deep humanism. THIS IS MY MOON is a cruel yet beautiful film. 
Handagama, apart from handling a most sensitive subject with a maturity rare among the
younger film makers of this country, has successfully broken away from the straightjacket of classical cinema without losing clarity and intelligibility, a price most other film makers had to pay in attempting
the same. Here is a film that deserves to be given maximum exposure in the international art cinema circuit.
Tissa Abeysekara
Chairman
National Film Corporation
In some way, ‘THIS IS MY MOON’ is a disturbing movie. It disturbs our 
assumptions about war, about love, about life. It makes us come to terms with the absurdity, as well as the brutality of war. It
is a brave, sensitive film.
Radhika Coomaraswamy
UN’s special rapport
On violence against women.
An intense and disturbing film set in the Sri Lankan civil war. With 
restrained camera work and sharp editing, Asoka Handagama powerfully evokes the tormented life of a village on the edge of a war zone.
Cary Rajinder Sawhney
London Film Festival – 2000
This is a brilliant and daring piece of film making because, in an 
important sense, Handagama returns to the stark novelty and clarity of the language of early cinema, in order to
find answers to the serious problem of how a modern film maker can speak rationally, objectively and truthfully about the consequences of a cruel and devastating ethnic war using the ideologically
implicated idioms of today’s globalized cinematic language.
Robert Crusz
Film Critic
A film explores a new dimension of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, 
through an intense portrayal of the troubled and impassioned relationship between two young people. Caught up in a war that is not of their
making, they pay the price for reaching out to one another across the ethnic divide, defying convention and tradition. A remarkable critique of social hypocrisy and sexual politics in the context of an on going
conflict, THIS IS MY MOON is a damning comment on war and its consequences for ordinary people.
Sunila Abeysekara
(Receiver of the UN’s Human Rights Prize in 1999)
This is outstanding example of artwork in search of new dimensions under pressure of an insecure state in a desperate situation. Suppression of
war-related facts over years creates a new language. Asoka 
Handagama
needs nothing more than using his ingenuity to mesmerize us. With desperation and lethargy looming everywhere, angst can only be overcome by the strongest of human bonds of instinct of love. This is truth
instrumentalized for understanding, the eclipse of life being rekindled by a script and editing of the finest. Main and supporting actors add to a new level of
achievement in what can be seen as a turning point in Sri Lankan film.
Manfred Broenner
Director
Goethe Institute