Film

Behind Porattam is a network of Jaffna filmmakers, musicians and young actors now reaching cinemas across Sri Lanka and the diaspora.

Premiering in TIFF's Short Cuts Programme 05, Kalainithan Kalaichelvan's 12-minute Tamil-language short follows a Bharatanatyam dancer whose body becomes the site of a much larger fight.

Suba Sivakumaran's House of My Fathers refuses to reduce trauma into spectacle, building a tense emotional landscape where memory itself becomes the battlefield.

Behind the magazine covers and red carpets is a deeper story rooted in Tamil heritage, a British upbringing, and the determination to build a career on her own terms.

Kalainithan Kalaichelvan is part of a new generation of Tamil-Canadian filmmakers using cinema to explore identity, memory, family, grief, and the emotional weight carried across generations.

Set in the cramped apartments and shadowed alleyways of La Chapelle, Paris's unofficial Little Jaffna, the film traces three days in the life of a reluctant courier caught between French police surveillance and Tamil gang loyalty.

In just twelve minutes, Karupy captures the emotional weight of a Tamil family celebration turned upside down, and marks a major moment for Tamil-Canadian cinema.

Maya Bastian's upcoming series How To Be Brown is a sharp and timely comedy that explores race, representation, and the complicated experience of growing up Brown in the diaspora.

She did not enter Hollywood through the usual machinery of industry connections. She arrived as a teenager from Mississauga with a sharp sense of self and the kind of presence that could make a global audience stop scrolling.

From journalism and documentary filmmaking to assisting Balu Mahendra, Someetharan's path to Kollywood has been anything but conventional, and Neelira is the reclamation it was always building toward.