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28th(2023) Jiseok

Travel/Road Movie · Crime/Violence · Politics · Human Rights/Labor/Social  

  • CountrySri Lanka/India
  • Production Year2023
  • Running Time93min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
Indian film producer Kesav and blogger Amritha are a married couple who arrive in Sri Lanka to tour the ancient sites of the Hindu epic Ramayana. On the first day of their journey, Kesav receives a phone call that Netflix is interested in investing in his project and is eager to return to India. Unfortunately, on the same night, intruders attack their hotel and steal their telephones, laptops, and cameras. The couple head to the police station and are asked to identify suspects from a group of unemployed youths from the village. Set in Sri Lanka, which declared national bankruptcy in April 2022, the film shifts focus from the story of an Indian couple on vacation to a depiction of the situations of people who are treated as second-class citizens in their own country. The desperation and survival issues they face and their accumulating anger against the incompetent and corrupt state power are depicted through a solid narrative. (PARK Sun Young)
Director
Director
Prasanna VITHANAGE
Born in 1962, Vithanage is a filmmaker, theater director, and film educator, regarded as one of the pioneers of the third generation of Sri Lankan cinema. Over the course of more than 25 years in the film industry, the director has addressed social and political issues in Sri Lanka and garnered 17 awards for his debut feature Ice on Fire (1992). The director’s notable works include Death on a Full Moon (1997); August Sun (2003); Flowers of the Sky (2008); With You, Without You (2012); Children of the Sun (2019).
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Credit
  • Director Prasanna VITHANAGE 프라사나 비타나게
  • Producer Anto CHITTILAPPILLY
  • Cast Roshan MATHEW, Darshana RAJENDRAN
  • Screenplay Prasanna VITHANAGE, Anushka SENANAYAKE
  • Cinematography Rajeev RAVI
  • Editor A. Sreekar PRASAD
  • Sound Tapas NAYAK
  • Music K
  • Production Company Newton Cinema
    India 6th Floor, Alapatt Heritage Building, Mahatma Gandhi Rd, Kochi, Kerala 682035
    anto@newtoncinema.com