SPYING STARS
2025, 99 minutes, France/India/Sri Lanka, 1.85, Color, 5.1 Sound, in English and Sinhala with English subtitles
Sales/Festivals: Diversion
Synopsis:
Scientist Anandi visits Hanuman Island to perform the last rites ritual for her father. She is immediately placed in quarantine in a remote hotel due to a pandemic caused by a machine-dominant world. When a mysterious star starts following her, she escapes and seeks refuge with a mother and her transgender daughter.
Director's Statement (excerpt)
I chose to construct ‘Illvibe’, a disease of the future that finds its origins in technology and devices to narrate a film of loss and mourning, an existential common experience of all mankind of today and in future. ‘SPYING STARS’ is a representation of how the tidy and so-called device controlled world we were familiar with broke down and became an unknown and uncomfortable reality.
About the Director:
Vimukthi Jayasundara was born in Sri Lanka in 1977. He studied at Mahinda College in Galle,
then participated in several political and artistic movements.
He became an author, screenwriter and film critic, and made three short films before the
age of 17. He has since made five feature films including THE FORSAKEN LAND (2004), BETWEEN
TWO WORLDS (2009) and others, that have all been featured in prestigious film festivals such
as Cannes, Venice, Locarno and Toronto.
