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Dheepan
MEANRANK
75/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 67, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 88.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil fighter, a grieving woman, and an orphaned girl form a makeshift family, using passports from the dead to seek asylum in France. They are placed in a housing project outside Paris, where the man works as a caretaker. They struggle to build a new life while the violence of their past and the tensions of their new environment threaten to erupt.
Details
- Director
- Jacques Audiard
- Writers
- Jacques Audiard, Noé Debré, Thomas Bidegain
- Studio
- France 2 Cinéma, Why Not Productions, Page 114
- Released
- 26 August 2015
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $7.7M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 13 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (21) →
Awards & nominations
See all 16 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 16 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 2015 | Palme d'Or | Jacques Audiard | Winner |
| César Awards 2015 | Best Film | Nominee | |
| César Awards 2015 | Best Director | Jacques Audiard | Nominee |
| César Awards 2015 | Best Actor | Antonythasan Jesuthasan | Nominee |
| César Awards 2015 | Best Supporting Actor | Vincent Rottiers | Nominee |
| César Awards 2015 | Best Original Screenplay | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré | Nominee |
| César Awards 2015 | Best Cinematography | Eponine Momenceau | Nominee |
| César Awards 2015 | Best Editing | Juliette Welfling | Nominee |
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16 awards — Dheepan
×| Palme d'Or | Jacques Audiard | Winner |
| Best Actor | Antonythasan Jesuthasan | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography | Eponine Momenceau | Nominee |
| Best Director | Jacques Audiard | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Juliette Welfling | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee | |
| Best Original Screenplay | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Michel Barthélémy | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Daniel Sobrino, Valérie Deloof and Cyril Holtz | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Vincent Rottiers | Nominee |
| Grand Jury Prize | Winner |
| Best Non-U.S. Release | Winner |
| Best Director | Jacques Audiard | Nominee |
| Best Film | Nominee |
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Jacques Audiard and Pascal Caucheteux | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Marc Zinga | Nominee |