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Directed by Jacques Audiard
2015, English, 115 min
Tamil & French with English subtitles
Winner of the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, Dheepan is a deeply moving story of three strangers who escape the civil war in Sri Lanka by pretending to be a family. Sivadhasan, a former Tamil soldier takes on the identity of a dead man named Dheepan, a young woman poses as his wife, Yalini and a nine year old girl called Illayaal becomes their “daughter”. The three refugees are granted asylum in France and they try to make a new life in a crime-ridden housing project outside Paris.
