Dheepan
Dheepan
“ When the war continues to rage in your heart and mind ”
CINEMA2015-08-26
DIGITAL2015-10-29
RegionFR
Runtime115 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“A migration drama where war trauma, false family, and suburban marginalization expose sharp social fractures.”
Storyline
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
DIRECTOR / Director
Jacques Audiard
KEYWORDS
parisfrancefreedom fightersri lankasocial realismdrug gangwar refugeesdangerous neighborhood
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A migration drama where war trauma, false family, and suburban marginalization expose sharp social fractures.
