Story
DOCUMENTARY Sri Lanka, 1983: at the age of five, Jude Ratnam fled the massacre of the Tamil minority by the Sinhalese majority. 30 years later, he returns as a film-maker. Travelling on the same red train as during his escape, he looks for traces of the conflict that turned from a fight for independence into self-destructive terrorism. At the sites of past conflict, Ratnam’s memories rub shoulders with those of former fighters. With Demons in Paradise, a Tamil film-maker for the first time reveals his view of the history of the bloody civil war that didn’t end until 2009.
Director
JUDE RATNAM (*1978) was born the son of a priest in Colombo, from where he had to flee as a child to the Northern, Tamil-controlled part of Sri Lanka. He worked for various NGOs before deciding to become a film-maker. He worked for ten years on his debut film Demons in Paradise, which premièred at the Cannes Festival.Trailer
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Demons in Paradise
Documentary Feature
English, Tamil, Sinhala
Asiascope | FF2017
France, Sri Lanka
2017
94 min
OV with English subtitles
Jude Ratnam
Jude Ratnam, Isabelle Marina
Julie Paratian
Chinthaka Somakeerthi, Mahinda Abeysinghe
Jeanne Oberson
Rajkumar Dharshan
Simon Gréau
Upside Distribution
Sister Productions; Kriti a Work of Art
Estelle de Araujo, Upside Distribution: estelle.dearaujo@upsidetelevision.com