House of My Fathers(HKAFF 2019)

Two villages, one Tamil and the other Sinhala, have been at war for generations. Both face a new existential threat: the curse of infertility. The villages receive a message from the gods to each send a representative to the Forest of the Dead to find the key to renewing life. Only one will return. The chosen ones, a mute Tamil widow and a disgraced Sinhalese soldier, journey into the forest and confront the secrets of their villages and their own past traumas. Suba Sivakumaran makes her feature debut with a dystopian parable about the long history of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Harrowing yet lyrical, this surreal odyssey envisions the very real horrors and consequences of war and violence.