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The Eyes of Summer

Run Time

15 mins

Collaboratively developed with members of the filmmaker’s family, a narrative was improvised around an investigation into his mother’s interactions with spirits in the community during her childhood. Landing somewhere between horror fiction and “spectral” ethnography, the film describes a population reeling from devastations of the past, where distinctions between the living and the dead are thinning.

The Eyes of Summer

Gimhanaye Netra

In a small and remote hamlet, a young girl develops a curious friendship with a spirit who lives in an abandoned house. The Eyes of Summer was shot in Samarasinghe’s mother’s village in Southern Sri Lanka—shortly after the civil war in 2010.

Director

Countries

Year

2020

Premiere

Primary Contact

Rajee Samarasinghe

Duration

15 mins

Producer

Rajee Samarasinghe Delini Malka Samarasinghe Milani Samarasinghe

Director of photography

Rajee Samarasinghe

Cinematographer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Sound design

Rajee Samarasinghe Christina C Nguyen

Editor

Rajee Samarasinghe

Script

Rajee Samarasinghe

Production designer

Rajee Samarasinghe

Art direction

Rajee Samarasinghe

Camera

Rajee Samarasinghe

Actor

Shalani Dilasha Malka Malshani Lanka Rajapaksa Malisha Kavindi

Distribution (Worldwide)

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre