Dheepan

Jacques Audiard : 2015

Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the civil war is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little girl – hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe, even though they barely know one another. Arriving in Paris, posing as a family, they move from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing project in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his 'wife' and his 'daughter', but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior's instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family. Jacques Audiard's feature was winner of the Palme d'Or when it premiered in competition at Festival de Cannes 2015.