{"id":10433,"date":"2019-09-17T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.nihrff.de\/6038-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:05:57","slug":"films-2019-house-of-my-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2019-house-of-my-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"House of My Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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House of My Fathers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mouna Kaandam \/ Nomiyana Mathakaya<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTOR(S): <\/strong>Suba Sivakumaran\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRY: <\/strong>Sri Lanka\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2018\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Tamil, Sinhala\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>German, English\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>95 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>International Competition 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, 03.10., 9.15 pm, kommkino
Saturday, 05.10., 5.00 pm, kommkino, Q&A with Pradeepa (actress)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Sri Lankan villages \u2013 one Tamil, one Sinhala \u2013 have been at war with each other for decades. When, on both sides, villagers become infertile, they receive a message from the gods. A Sinhala man and a Tamil woman are to be sent to an isolated place where they will find the secret to renew life. But only one of them will return. In the Forest of the Dead, Asoka and Ahalya will have to confront the secrets of their villages and their personal pasts. Suba Sivakumaran\u2019s feature-length debut is a fascinating and compressed allegory of war. The self-taught director is astonishingly self-confident in the way that she pairs claustrophobic and intense 4:3 images with a tight sound mix and excellent editing. There is no room for exotic and touristy wide shots of the jungle. In the style of magical realism, wonderful pictures of people\u2019s inner states stand side by side with objective reality, depicting trauma and the consequences of violence and war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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