Dheepan

(2015)

Synopsis

A Sri Lankan soldier poses as a member of a fake family in order to seek asylum in Paris. He soon becomes the janitor at a low-rent apartment building, where violence and the drug trade threaten his "wife and daughter."

Directors

Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard

Production year

2015

Rating

R

Studio

IFC Films

Runtime

110 minutes

Cast

Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga