DEMONS IN PARADISE
Sri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he flees 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.
Year of production: 2017
Country: France
Duration: 94 minutes
Credits
- Jude RATNAM Director
- Jude RATNAM Screenplay
- Isabelle MARINA Screenplay
- Rajkumar DHARSHAN Music
- Benoît GARGONNE Sound
- Jean-Guy VERAN Sound
- Jeanne OBERSON Editing
- Chinthaka SOMAKEERTHI Director of Photography
- Mahinda ABEYSINGHE Director of Photography
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Contacts
Secondary Production
- Kriti a Work of Art Sri Lanka
International Press
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FLORENCE ALEXANDRE
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