Close-Up Film Festival 3 - "Funny Boy"
Saturday, July 10th 2021
Film Festival
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About this event
As part of PrideTT's Close-Up Film Festival, we'll be working in collaboration with the Canadian High Commission to bring you the following film:
- Funny Boy (2020) which will be shown all day
- An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel of the same name, the film centres on the coming of age of Arjie Chelvaratnam, a young Tamil boy in Sri Lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese people before the breakout of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
- A film by Deepa Mehta
The screening of Funny Boy will be shown all day.