Born in 1977 in Sri Lanka, Vimukthi Jayasundara studied at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporaries, in France. His directorial debut, The Forsaken Land won the Caméra d’Or Prize at the Cannes Festival in 2005. Between Two Worlds, his second film, was selected for the International Competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2009, while Mushrooms was screened in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes in 2011. In 2004 he directed his first feature, The Forsaken Land, which was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Gilles Jacob, the then President of the Cannes Film Festival, stated that a great hope for the renovation of contemporary cinema was born, after watching the film. Jayasundara’s films Between Two Worlds (2009) and Mushrooms (2011) premiered respectively at Venice and Cannes. His recent works include the features Dark in the White Light (2015, Locarno, Nantes). His work speaks from the borders; those that separate a country from another, modern cities from ancestral land, and the threshold between the living and the dead.