Completed - SINHALE - Drama - 108 minutes
Year of production : 2005 Director(s) : Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA Writer(s) : Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA Cast : Hemasiri LIYANAGE, Kaushalya FERNANDO, Mahendra PERERA, Nilupili JAYAWARDENA, Pumidika SAPURNI PEIRIS, Saumya LIYANAGE Producer(s) : Philippe AVRIL (Unlimited), Francisco VILLA-LOBOS (Les Films de l'Etranger), Pascal DIOT (Onoma)
Neither war nor peace, just the wind blowing God is absent, but still the sun rises Over a lonely home between two trees in a forsaken land A hand emerges from the water, begging for help A legendary woman searches for love A soldier kills a stranger, and is burdened by guilt Following twenty-plus years of civil war, a cease-fire treaty has been reached between the Sinhala government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In its attempt to ensure that the cease-fire isn’t breached, the Sri Lankan army’s presence is felt everyday, conveying the strange sense of a country suspended in a state of being simultaneously without war and without peace.
Country(ies) : SRI LANKA Financing plan : An UNLIMITED (Philippe Avril), LES FILMS DE L’ÉTRANGER (Francisco Villa-Lobos), ONOMA (Pascal Diot), ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA (Michel Reilhac) co-production in association with FILM COUNCIL PRODUCTIONS (Chandana Aluthge, Sri Lanka) and LE FRESNOY (Studio national des arts contemporains) with the participation of DIGIMAGE, LES FILMS HATARI, LE FILMOIR, POLY-SON and supported by FONDS SUD CINÉMA (Ministry for Foreign Affairs and National Cinema Center - France), HUBERT BALS FUND (The Netherlands), PRINCE CLAUS FUND FOR CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT (The Netherlands), RÉGION ALSACE (France), COMMUNAUTÉ URBAINE DE STRASBOURG