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Dark in the White Light

A Window on Asian Cinema

Crime/Violence · Social Criticism · Spirituality  

  • CountrySriLanka,France
  • Production Year2015
  • Running Time82min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
In a Sri Lankan jungle, a young monk sets out on a journey to find the spiritual truth about life and death. A resident who wants to be a doctor tests his limits and tries to kill himself but fails. A human organ trafficker expands his illegal business in the heat of the day in Colombo. Ignorant poor people who come to sell their organs become victims, amid indifference. A surgeon participating in the trafficking uses violence toward women at night. His driver does not tell anyone about what he witnesses. At the crossroads of life and death, Sri Lanka’s nights continue to be sleepless. The film unfurls the stories of different protagonists’ lives, deaths and violence. After exposing itself to the human body using violence and the ones suffering from it, the camera reaches the scene where the doctor burns himself to death in the jungle, thus breaking the chain of cinematographic meaning. You can feel Sri Lankan films’ own sentiment through the journey of the monk, who searches for the legend of spirits and the truth, and through the stories taking place in the hot, humid city of Colombo and the jungle (HONG Soin)
Director
Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA
Vimukthi Jayasundara was selected in 2003 by the Cinefondation of the Cannes Film Festival to participate in their residency program. His directorial debut, The Forsaken Land won the Camera D’Or at Cannes in 2005. Between Two Worlds, his second film, was 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.
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Credit
  • Director Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA 비묵디 자야순다라
  • Producer Film Council Productions, Les Films de l’Etranger
  • Cast Steve De La Zilwa, Ruvin de Silva, Suranga Ranawaka, Mahendra Perera, Kaushalya Fernando
  • Screenplay Vimukthi Jayasundara
  • Cinematography Channa Deshapriya, Dhanushka Gunathilake
  • Production Design Lal Harindranath
  • Editor Saman Alvitigala
  • Music Lakshman Joseph de Saram
  • Production Company Film Council Productions
    Sri Lanka 7A, Esther Place, Park Road, Colombo 05
    filmcouncilproductions@gmail.com

  • World Sales Film Council Productions
    Sri Lanka 7A, Esther Place, Park Road, Colombo 05
    filmcouncilproductions@gmail.com
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