Flicks Film Club Screening: Dheepan
Fri 27 Jun
|Twickenham
In Jacques Audiard’s 2015 Cannes Palme D’Or Winning film Dheepan, a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris. Soon his past catches up with him.
Time & Location
27 Jun 2025, 19:45 – 22:00 BST
Twickenham, 42 York St, Twickenham TW1 3LJ, UK
About the event
PLEASE NOTE: Prior to this screening we are holding a related Q&A event - Trekking Sri Lanka: More Than a Travel Guide with Marcia Summers
Dheepan was a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger, In Sri Lanka. After defeat in the Civil War, Dheepan flees to France, taking with him a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the 'family' moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs (the banlieu). He works to build a new life and a real home for his 'wife' and his 'daughter', but the daily violence he confronts raises troubled memories from his recent past and forces a course of action to protect what he has.
