Dheepan

The last days of the Sri Lankan civil war. Sivadhasan is one of the soldiers of the Tamil Tigers. After an armed conflict in which the hero's side lost, he is forced to leave for a refugee camp. Sivadhasan wants to start a new life in France. He needs a convincing story to claim political asylum. An ex-soldier receives the passport of Deepan, a dead man, and takes two strangers with him to play the role of his family. Sivadhasan, Yalina, his "wife", and nine-year-old Illayal get on a ship bound for Paris. In the capital, the family often has to move from place to place until Dipan finds a job. But faced with the daily violence and danger of the suburbs, the ex-soldier is forced to recall his skills and protect the people who have become his family. Read more The director, screenwriter and producer of the drama "Dipan" was the laureate of the Cannes Film Festival, Jacques Audiard. Among his works are the crime thriller "Lips Read" with Vincent Cassel, the action film "My Heart Has Stopped Beating", the Oscar nominee "The Prophet", and the drama "Rust and Bone" with Marion Cotillard. Actor Jesutasan Antonitasan, who played the lead role, was a soldier of the Tamil Tigers as a child before going to France, just like the hero of the drama. In life, he is a writer and political activist. The lead female roles went to Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Claudine Vinasitambu, who had never acted in a feature film before. Jacques Audiard often collaborated in his previous works with the famous French composer and Oscar winner Alexandre Depla (The Painted Veil, David Fincher's The Mysterious Story of Benjamin Button, Tom Hooper's The King Speaks, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Terence Malick's The Tree of Life, Ben Affleck's Operation Argo, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and many others). This time, the director turned to Nicolas Jaar, for whom the film was his debut. "Deepan" won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.