Burning Birds
57
Drama
1989, Sri Lanka is still mired in Civil War. After the arrest and murder of her husband by a local militia that accused him of subversive activities, Kusul has to support her eight children and her harsh mother-in-law on her own. Faced with the contempt of a patriarchal society, Kusul is determined to do anything to save her family, hammering stones in a quarry, clearing blood and body parts in a slaughterhouse. However, she is soon on ... [+]
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"Janadari delivers a powerfully rugged tour de force (...) Burning Birds is a blistering social and artistic statement." |
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