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Dheepan

Winner of the Palme d'Or 2015, this feature from Jacques Audiard charts a migrant journey.

Sivadhasan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a Tamil Tiger soldier during the close of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

When his side loses and he is forced to move to a refugee camp, Sivadhasan decides to flee to France.

In order to secure political asylum, however, he needs a convincing story.

Taking on the passport of a dead man called Dheepan and a pretend family - wife Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and daughter Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) - he makes his way to Paris.

After successfully settling in a north-eastern suburb of the French capital, Sivadhasan gets a job as a caretaker and begins to build a new life for his family.

Soon, however, he realises he is in a new conflict zone as gang violence escalates around them meaning he has to reopen old war wounds.

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Jacques Audiard
OPTBD2921
5055201831361
Blu-ray (Blu-ray )
Region B  Learn More
Tamil, French, English
English
08/08/2016
2015
Feature, Foreign
1
Retail not for Rental
115 mins
(15) Suitable for 15 years and over.
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