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Cannes Prizewinner Vimukthi Jayasundara’s ‘Turtle’s Gaze on Spying Stars’ Commences Shoot (EXCLUSIVE)


Sri Lankan auteur Vimukthi Jayasundara has commenced principal photography on his next film 'Turtle’s Gaze on Spying Stars.'

Sri Lankan auteur Vimukthi Jayasundara, whose “The Forsaken Land” (2005) won the Camera d’Or at Cannes, has started principal photography on his next film “Turtle’s Gaze on Spying Stars.” The protagonist is a refugee from Sri Lanka who returns to the country and is forcibly admitted into a valley resort that has been converted into an isolation facility. Once there, memories from his Sri Lankan past haunt him, but, instead of producing fear, as is the facility’s intention, the experience has the opposite effect.

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