SUN, AUG 07, 8:30p:
Miami Beach Premiere Engagement!
Best of Cannes Film Festival
(Palme d’Or – Best Film) and Best of Miami Film Festival
(Knight Grand Jury Prize)
DHEEPAN
Directed by JACQUES AUDIARD/France/2016/1hr,55mins.
With Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the new film from acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) is a gripping, human tale of survival. On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift “family” sets about establishing a new life—only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstance and struggle, Dheepan is both a tour-de-force thriller and a powerful depiction of the immigrant experience.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or
Miami Int. Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
International Cinephile Society Best Actor
Online Film Critics Society Best Non-US release
“AN IMMENSELY POWERFUL THRILLER”-Andrew Pulver, The Guardian
“The most compassionate and humanistic film Audiard's made to date.”
-Oliver Lyttelton, The Playlist
