Winner of the Palme d'Or 2015, this feature from Jacques Audiard charts a migrant journey. Sivadhasan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) is a Tamil Tiger soldier during the close of the Sri Lankan Civil War. When his side loses and he is forced to move to a refugee camp, Sivadhasan decides to flee to France. In order to secure political asylum, however, he needs a convincing story. Taking on the passport of a dead man called Dheepan and a pretend family - wife Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and daughter Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) - he makes his way to Paris. After successfully settling in a north-eastern suburb of the French capital, Sivadhasan gets a job as a caretaker and begins to build a new life for his family. Soon, however, he realises he is in a new conflict zone as gang violence escalates around them meaning he has to reopen old war wounds.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Producer: Pascal Caucheteux
Producer: Jacques Audiard
Writer: Jacques Audiard
Writer: Thomas Bidegain
Writer: Noé Debré
Music: Nicolas Jaar
Cinematographer: Éponine Momenceau
Actor: Jesuthasan Antonythasan
Actor: Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Actor: Claudine Vinasithamby
Actor: Vincent Rottiers
Actor: Faouzi Bensaïdi
Actor: Marc Zinga
Actor: Bass Dhem
Actor: Franck Falise
Actor: Joséphine de Meaux
Actor: Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux