Munnel (Sand)

Visakesa Chandrasekaram / Sri Lanka

Screening

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2nd NOV - 3rd DEC

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Film Information

Year: 2023

Duration: 102'

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

Rudran, an ex-Tamil militant returns home after being freed from captivity, looking for his lover Vaani who had disappeared during the war. Rudran’s mother, Sellamma who is gifted with a ‘boon’ of soothsaying, can tell the locals whether their kith and kin are alive or dead, but she refuses to say the same about Vaani. While men and women defeated in the war find solace in massive Hindu temples, Rudran initially refuses to pray, but later in an act of desperation, joins a month-long pilgrimage seeking help from God Ayyappa, hoping to reunite with his lover.

Director

Visakesa Chandrasekaram is a lawyer, academic and an artist. He has made two feature films – Sayapethi Kusuma (Frangipani) and Paangshu (Earth) which won several local and international awards. He has published two novels – Tigers Don’t Confess and The King and the Assassin. He has written and directed several stage plays including Forbidden Area, which obtained the Gratiean Prize. Visakesa has worked in Sri Lanka as a human rights lawyer and in Australia as a consultant to the NSW Government. He currently works as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law in University of Colombo.