‘Miles of a Dream’ A French film from Lanka

Young filmmaker Udaya Dharmawardena’s maiden solo film, a French-Sri Lankan co-production ‘Miles of a Dream’ has been completed and ready for release. Played by French-Sri Lankan cast including Pauline Delpech, Lakshan Abenayaka, Iindrachapa Liyanage, Ayesha Disanayaka and Hemasiri Liyanage, the film was shot in France and Colombo. A tale of pain of love and its physiological impact ‘Miles of a dream’ is a triangular love story that crosses continents.

Being an illegal immigrant worker in Paris; Gayan, a Sri Lankan is doing a petty job in a supermarket. Mother’s death in back home makes him more frustrated, as the last attachment to the origin country is dissolved. Gayan meets Eve, who is searching way-out from her own disquieting past and comes to know the pain that Gayan too is undergoing. But she brings a new life to Gayan and they fall in love.

The tranquility shatters once the couple meets Chapa at a pub, where the three become friends. Eve loves music and Chapa falls in love with her who has already started liking him.

Soon Gayan realises the change in Eve.

However she is in a dilemma, as she cannot leave Gayan, with the pleasurable but suffering memories in the past with him. When Eve decides to join Chapa, he has been deported for being an illegal immigrant. Eve’s leaving makes Gayan for an attempted suicide.

Eve follows Chapa and realizes that his life is not as comfortable as she sees and he barely survives by singing at bars and performing in musicals on the road. Desperate girl’s pain ties up with the memories she shared with Gayan before. Having crossed and irreversible distances she quenches relief by savoring the memories she has of Gayan. But one day she accidently, comes across Gayan again in a vegetable market, then decides to make a turn of her life.