Asian Cinema Competition

SAND

Original Title : Munnel
Director : Visakesa Chandrasekaram
Country : Srilanka
Language : Tamil
Duration : 100 minutes
Year : 2022
Asian Cinema Competition

Synopsis

A former rebel returns home from military detention searching for his missing lover whose plight was yet to be revealed by the rebel’s soothsaying mother.

Visakesa Chandrasekaram

Director

Visakesa Chandrasekaram is a lawyer, academic, and artist who has made two feature films, Sayapethi Kusuma (Frangipani) and Paangshu (Earth). His novels, Tigers Don’t Confess and The King and the Assassin, have been published to great acclaim. He has also written and directed several stage plays, including Forbidden Area, which has won numerous awards. Visakesa currently works as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Colombo.

Crew

Director: Visakesa Chandrasekaram
Producer: Havelock Arts Studios
Editor: Sithum Samarajeewa
Screenplay: Visakesa Chandrasekaram
Dialogues:Visakesa Chandrasekaram
DOP: Rishi Selvam
Sound: Aruna Kaluarachchi
Music: Pathmayan Sivananthan

Awards & Nominations

Tiger Jury Award, 2023 International Film Festival of Rotterdam

Gallery

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