MUNNEL

Sri Lanka
2023

Director: Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Language: Tamil, Sinhalese (Sinhala) with English subtitles

Rudran, an ex-Tamil militant returns home from military detention, looking for his lover Vaani who had disappeared during the war. Rudran’s mother, Sellamma who is gifted with a “boon” of soothsaying, tells the locals whether their kith and kin are alive or dead, but she refuses to say anything about Vaani. While men and women defeated in the war find solace in massive Hindu temples, Rudran initially refuses to pray, but later in an act of desperation, he joins a month-long pilgrimage seeking help from God Ayyappa, hoping to be re-united with his lover.

Screenings

22 July | 14:30 | Suncoast 7
26 July | 19:30 | Suncoast 7

Credits

Director

Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Producer

Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Screenplay

Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Cinematography

Rishi Selvam

Cast

Sivakumar Lingeswaran, Kamala Sri Mohan Kumar

Runtime

100 min

Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Visakesa Chandrasekaram is a lawyer, academic and an artist. He has made two feature films – Sayapethi Kusuma (Frangipani) and Paangshu (Earth) which won many local and international awards. He has published two novels – Tigers Don’t Confess and The King and the Assassin. He has written and directed several stage plays including Forbidden Area, which won the Gratiean Prize. Visakesa has worked in Sri Lanka as a human rights lawyer and in Australia as a consultant to the NSW Government. He has received a doctorate from the Australian National University for his research on the use of confessionary evidence under counter-terrorism laws. He currently works as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law in University of Colombo.
DIFF 2023

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