C. Dheepan
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Dheepan
Directed by Jacques Audiard
France / 2015 / 115 min / Drama
68th Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or
Language: Tamil, French with Japanese subtitles
Schedule
9.17（Sat）
Sakuraiyakkyoku Central Hall （Sendai） / 16h00
9.24（Sat）
Sapporo Plaza 2・5（Sapporo） / 16h00
10.9（Sun）
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tokyo （Tokyo） / 16h00
10.22（Sat）
Asahiｓeimei Hall （Osaka） / 16h00
A former soldier during the Sri Lankan Civil War decides to move to France to take a fresh chance at life. In order to secure the asylum, he poses as “Dheepan” and pairs with people he barely knew as his “family”. As they arrive in France, he lands a job as a resident caretaker and begins to establish his new life in the suburbs of Paris. During the day, they were a “family”, but at home they were strangers. Just when things were coming together, violence erupts and although he thought he had backed away from war, he reaches for violence to protect his beloved…
