Distributors Deaf Crocodile Films & Gratitude Films Team To Give North American Releases To Sri Lankan Historical Drama ‘Children Of The Sun’ & Indian Satire ‘Boomba Ride’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Indie distribution outfits Deaf Crocodile Films and Gratitude Films are combining forces to give limited theatrical releases this year to a pair of foreign-language titles.Children Of The Sun (Gaadi) is a historical drama from Sri Lanka.
Set in 1814 during the era of repressive British colonial rule in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the film depicts what happens after a collaborationist English agent convinces the local Sinhala Buddhist nobility to attempt to overthrow the rival Tamil king.
The subsequent military disaster forces a Sinhala noble woman to choose between suicide and marriage to a low-caste outcast.Prasanna Vithanage directed the pic, which is in the Sinhala language, and will be released with English subtitles.Also receiving an American release will be Boomba Ride, the Indian feature from God On A Balcony director Biswajeet Bora.
The film is a satire of India’s rural education system, following an eight-year old boy (newcomer Indrajit Pegu) who knows how to rig the game for himself.
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