115 minutes in English, French, Tamil Directed by: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby
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RWinner of the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Dheepan is a gripping, human tale of survival and a powerful depiction of the immigrant experience. On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a soldier poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life - only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. Dheepan is both a tour-de-force thriller and a heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstance and struggle.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qB8_Q9oTuw"For a while, it's quietly meditative and riveting - worthy of the Palme d'Or it captured last spring in Cannes." ~ Globe and Mail