Jacques Audiard, France, 2015, 115’

From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) comes the powerful story of Dheepan, a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior, forced to flee to France to escape the civil war, posing as a family with a woman and young girl he has never previously met. Dheepan works to build a new life for his ‘wife’ and ‘daughter’, but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens the violence from his past, and he’s left fighting for their livelihood, and eventually their lives..