Lankan film on migrants in the centre of Europe
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Suranga D. Katugampala’s maiden film “For a Son” was recently screened in the centre of Europe, Brussels.
It’s so important that in this era of migration, about walls, about peoples in transit, about fears of neighbour, cultures in turmoil that our film is screened.
“For A Son” is a film by Suranga Deshapriya Katugampala and it was screened at the 52nd edition of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesar. There he received a special mention from the jury.
In a northern Italian province, Sunita, a Sinhalese woman, works as a homemaker and is the mother of a teenager who refuses to speak by shutting herself up in her adolescent world. A heavy silence reigns between them. Sunita faces a difficult job of bringing up this son who constantly rejects her with silence and indifference.
Born in Sri Lanka, Suranga has lived in Italy for many years. The film that, through everyday life, silences, repetitive gestures and stifled dramas, tells the story of a very complicated problematic: integration. The director tries to show the reality of a regional microcosm: work, loneliness, the difficult period of adolescence; Problems that are consistent with the difficulty of integrating into a community. Rejection of one’s own mother may be due to a refusal of one’s origins, a refusal to be different because of a much deeper problem: integration.