the gap

a film by Keerthigan Sivakumar

The Gap

A film by Keerthigan Sivakumar

  • 2023
  • Suisse
  • 15 minutes
  • VO tamil/french

End of the day, on a Swiss train. Yalini, a 27-year-old Tamil-Swiss woman, gets a call from her parents. Once again, they inquire about her agreement with a suggestion for an arranged marriage. As the conversation grows tense, one of the passengers approaches her and expresses annoyance that she’s speaking very loudly. She faces two worlds that do not understand her.

prizes

Prix bernois du cinéma

  • Newcomer Prize

Festival du film français d’helvétie

  • Prize of the forum du bilinguisme

FESTIVALS

World premiere : Journées de Soleure

Festival du Film Français d’Helvétie
Jaffna International Film Festival
Filmfest Malans
Tourne-Films Festival Lausanne
Show Me Shorts Film Festival

 

credits

With

Tifani Achilleas

Cédric Le Proust

Director

Keerthigan Sivakumar

Screenplay

Keerthigan Sivakumar

Director of photography

Patrick Tresch

Editing

Axel Chemin

Music

Darbuka Siva

1st Assistant director

Nikita Merlini

Sound

Timothée Montani

Costumes

Marie Bajenova

Hair and makeup

Virginie Pernet

Production

Box Productions 

biographie du réalisateur

Born in 1988 in Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Keerthigan Sivakumar arrived in Switzerland as a refugee in 2009. Graduated in visual communication (2016), he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in cinema at ECAL (University of Arts, Lausanne) in 2021. His graduation film DOOSRA (2022) received the “Upcoming Talent” ward at the Solothurn Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Graduation Film in Europe at the Premiers Plans d’Angers (2022) and was nominated for the Swiss Film Awards – Best Graduation Film in 2022.
He is currently developing his first feature documentary project.