France, Sri Lanka / 2016 / 84 min. / Director: Sanjeewa PUSHPAKUMARA
The long-awaited second film by director, Sanjeeva PUSHPAKUMA, following "Flying Fish" which screened at TOKYO FILMeX 2011. The film is set in a village during Sri Lanka's civil war in 1989. Ordinary housewife, Kusum, is subjected to tragedy when one day her husband is suddenly taken captive by militia and murdered. To support her eight children and elderly mother-in-law, Kusum goes into town to start working, but what awaits her is extraordinary hardship.... Having actually experienced the civil war years, PUSHPAKUMA's anger toward violence and female discrimination is bluntly expressed in this tour de force. The film attained cooperation from the Cannes Film Festival's Residence Programme, the Jerusalem International Film Lab, among others and world premiered in the New Currents section of the Busan International Film Festival.
