DEMONS IN PARADISE

By Jude RATNAM

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Documentary - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2017
Out of Competition
Warsaw FF 2017
Special Screenings
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, SRI LANKA
    • Languages
    • TAMIL, ENGLISH, SINHALE
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jude RATNAM
    • Producer(s)
    • Julie PARATIAN (SISTER PRODUCTIONS)
    • Synopsis
    • 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.