Director Jacques Audiard
Genre Crime | Drama
Cast Jesuthasan Antonythason, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinansithamby, Vincent Rottiers
Rating R
Release Date May 13th, 2016
“Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.”
“Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers - a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and his ‘daughter’, but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior’s instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family.”
The new film from Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone), the Palme D'Or winner Dheepan - in cinemas now. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) comes the powerful story of Dheepan, a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who is forced to flee to France to escape the civil war, posing as a family with a woman and young girl he has never previously met.