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Vimukthi Jayasundara is a Director and Scriptwriter born on 1977 at Ratnapura (Sri Lanka)

Vimukthi Jayasundara

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Birth 1977 (47 years) at Ratnapura (Sri Lanka)

Vimukthi Jayasundara is an award-winning Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter and visual artist. His first feature, The Forsaken Land (2005) won the Caméra d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, making him the only Sri Lankan to win the award. He followed this with Between Two Worlds (2009) which got nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival 2009. Vimukthi’s third feature, Mushrooms (2011) was filmed in India and went on to be selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival 2011. In 2012, the Jeonju International Film Festival invited him as one of three international film directors to produce a film for the Jeonju Digital Project 2012 for which he made Light in Yellow Breathing Space.

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Filmography of Vimukthi Jayasundara (3 films)

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Director

Mushrooms
Mushrooms (2013)
, 1h30
Directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara
Genres Drama
Actors Paoli Dam, Sudip Mukherjee, Tómas Lemarquis, Anubrata Basu
Rating40% 2.0425352.0425352.0425352.0425352.042535
Rahul (Sudip Mukherjee) is a Bengali architect working at construction sites in Dubai. He returns home to Kolkata after an absence of several years. His girlfriend, Paoli (Paoli Dam), has been waiting for his return. Rahul's seemingly successful life is overshadowed by the search for his brother (Sumeet Thakur), said to now be mad and living in the forest, where he sleeps in the trees and subsists on vegetation. This crazy brother befriends a French soldier in the jungle. Rahul and Paoli journey in search of his lost brother. The story involves people who are expropriated for construction projects.
The Forsaken Land, 1h47
Directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hemasiri Liyanage
Rating60% 3.0445253.0445253.0445253.0445253.044525
Ni guerre ni paix, juste le souffle du vent Dieu est absent mais le soleil se lève encore

Scriptwriter

Mushrooms
Mushrooms (2013)
, 1h30
Directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara
Genres Drama
Actors Paoli Dam, Sudip Mukherjee, Tómas Lemarquis, Anubrata Basu
Rating40% 2.0425352.0425352.0425352.0425352.042535
Rahul (Sudip Mukherjee) is a Bengali architect working at construction sites in Dubai. He returns home to Kolkata after an absence of several years. His girlfriend, Paoli (Paoli Dam), has been waiting for his return. Rahul's seemingly successful life is overshadowed by the search for his brother (Sumeet Thakur), said to now be mad and living in the forest, where he sleeps in the trees and subsists on vegetation. This crazy brother befriends a French soldier in the jungle. Rahul and Paoli journey in search of his lost brother. The story involves people who are expropriated for construction projects.
The Forsaken Land, 1h47
Directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hemasiri Liyanage
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.0445253.0445253.0445253.0445253.044525
Ni guerre ni paix, juste le souffle du vent Dieu est absent mais le soleil se lève encore