Flying Fish (Sinhala: ඉගිල්ලෙන මලුවො) is a 2011 anthology film directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Sanjeewa Pushpakumara.

[2][3] The film made its world premiere on 28 January 2011, as part of the Rotterdam festival's Tiger Awards Competition.

The film draws on stories from the director's life in his hometown of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, where Flying Fish was shot.

A recently widowed Sinhalese woman lives with her eight children in a remote village where the armed tension between the government army and the L.T.T.E., or Tamil Tigers escalates.

Her father is a clerk and her mother is a housewife; they live in a rural village in Eastern Sri Lanka, where the war between the state army and the L.T.T.E.

The government claims that the film "insults the security forces" and that it illegally used images of the Sri Lankan military uniform, both of which Pushpakumara denies.

According to BBC and Associated Press reports, the Sri Lankan police are currently conducting a "fact-finding investigation" into the film and have questioned its cast and production crew.

Local Sinhala news sources reported that even Pushpakumara's mother, who prepared meals for the cast and crew during the filming, has been questioned by authorities.

Sri Lanka's Free Media Movement has been variously cited as criticizing both the censorship of the film and this investigation, stating that they represented the government's desire to "militarise arts and culture."