‘Sulanga Gini Aran (Dark in the White Light) – Vimukthi Jayasundara’

(LK, 2015, 82’, OV, ond. st. EN)

A young Buddhist monk embarks on a quest for spiritual truth. A student, wanting to become a doctor, tries to test his limits. An organ dealer develops his business in the general indifference and humidity of Colombo. A surgeon, accompanied by a servant who functions as his driver, heals by day, and rapes women at night. In the form of a philosophical tale, the film interweaves various stories of fraying bodies, on the threshold of pain, between life and death.

Vimukhti Jayasundara

Born in 1977 in Sri Lanka, Vimukthi Jayasundara studied at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, in France. His directorial debut, The Forsaken Land won the Caméra d’Or Prize at the Cannes Festival in 2005. Between Two Worlds, his second film has been selected for the International Competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2009, while Mushrooms was screened in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes in 2011. His latest directorial venture Dark in the White Light saw its world premiere in the International competition section at the Locarno International Film festival in 2015.