Vimukthi Jayasundara

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Vimukthi Jayasundara, born in Sri Lanka, is a visual artist and screenwriter. After making The Land Of Silence (2001), a documentary about the victims of the civil war, Jayasundara studied at the Fresnoy School of Art. He became a resident at the Cinéfondation, Cannes in 2003. In 2004 he directed his first feature, The Forsaken Land, which was awarded the Caméra d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Gilles Jacob, the then President of the Cannes Film Festival, stated that a great hope for the renovation of contemporary cinema was born, after watching the film. Jayasundara’s films Between Two Worlds (2009) and Mushrooms (2011) premiered respectively at Venice and Cannes. His recent works include the features Dark in the White Light (2015, Locarno, Nantes) and Her. Him. The Other. His work speaks from the borders; those that separate a country from another, modern cities from ancestral land, and the threshold between the living and the dead.

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