Captivating storytelling with an irresistible human pulse.
— Allan Hunter, Screen Daily
The most compassionate and humanistic film Audiard's made to date.
— Oliver Lyttelton, The Playlist
An immensely powerful thriller.
— Andrew Pulver, The Guardian
Presented by Sundance Selects | France | May 6th, 2016 | 115 MINS | UR
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the new film from acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) is a gripping, human tale of survival. On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift “family” sets about establishing a new life—only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstance and struggle, Dheepan is both a tour-de-force thriller and a powerful depiction of the immigrant experience.
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Awards
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Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
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