…The film is slow, quiet, and elegantly framed, with long tracking shots of Avan riding his bicycle along dirt roads lined with palmyra trees, or through arid, windswept fields. People say little, and when they speak they use simple language that floats on the surface of their meaning. At the end of the TIFF premiere […]

Q: What prompted you to make a Tamil language film? A : I have been visiting the Jaffna peninsula regularly ever since the war ended. Even before that, during the ceasefire, I made several trips there to make friends with the people and be in touch with their lives. One of my friends suggested I […]