Director: Gregor Brandli
Country: Switzerland, Sri Lanka
Language: English |German | Sinhala | Swiss German
Year: 2025
Run Time: 114 mins
A dialogue about memory, restitution, and colonial responsibility
Artist Deneth Piumakshi Veda Arachchige discovered a collection of ancestral remains and artifacts from the Wanniyala-Aetto (an indigenous Sri Lankan community) in a Swiss museum. The items, brought to Basel by Swiss explorers via colonial methods, are now the subject of a lengthy repatriation effort by Deneth and the community's chief.
Director:
Born in 1986, Gregor is a filmmaker and photographer based in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2011, he has worked as an independent director and cinematographer on various documentary and narrative films, as well as interdisciplinary theater projects. He is a co-founder, writer, and performer with Theater Kollektiv Glück and a co-founder of the design studio Tristesse. His work focuses on cross-media film and theater projects that explore the fluid space between fiction and documentary. He is the winner of the 2013 Basel Kulturförderpreis.
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