EXCLUSIVE : Cannes Camera d’Or winning director Vimukthi Jayasundara’s latest film Spying Stars has been acquired by Bangkok-based sales agent Diversion, ahead of its world premiere in Busan’s inaugural Competition section.

The Sri Lankan filmmaker made the feature debut with The Forsaken Land , which won the Camera d’Or in 2005. His subsequent films – Between Two Worlds , Chatrak and Dark In The White Light – have played at Cannes, Venice, Locarno and Toronto.

Spying Stars will premiere in Busan’s newly established Competition section , vying for the top Busan Award and other prizes. The film focuses on a scientist who travels to a foreign land to fulfil her father’s last wish – to scatter his ashes in a river once familiar to him. However, she is held captive in a remote

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