DEMONS IN PARADISE
by Jude Ratnam
synopsis
Sri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he feels the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North. As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again. Demons in Paradise is the result of ten years of work. For the first time, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside.
international title: | Demons in Paradise |
original title: | Demons in Paradise |
country: | Sri Lanka, France |
sales agent: | Upside Distribution |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Jude Ratnam |
film run: | 92' |
release date: | FR 21/03/2018 |
screenplay: | Jude Ratnam, Isabelle Marina |
cinematography by: | Chinthaka Somakeerthi, Mahinda Abeysinghe |
film editing: | Jeanne Oberson |
music: | Rajkumar Dharshan |
producer: | Julie Paratian |
production: | Sister Productions, Kriti a Work of Art (LK) |
distributor: | Survivance |