Directed by : Jacques Audiard <br />Produced by : Why Not Productions <br />Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 49 min <br />French release: 26/08/2015 <br />Production year: 2015 <br /><br />Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil fighter, a Tiger.<br /> <br /> The civil war draws to a close in Sri Lanka, defeat is at hand, and Dheepan decides to flee. He takes a woman and a little girl, whom he doesn't know, with him, hoping this will make it easier to get political asylum in Europe.<br /> <br /> Once in Paris, this "family" struggles along, living in one shelter after another until Dheepan gets a caretaker's job in a housing project on the outskirts of the city.<br /> <br /> Dheepan hopes to build a new life and to create a real home for his fake wife and daughter.<br /> <br /> However, soon the everyday violence of the housing projects causes the still open wounds of the war to resurface.<br /><br /> Dheepan the soldier must reconnect with his warrior instincts to protect those who he hopes will become his "real" family.<br /><br />More info: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/38791/dheepan
