Canada’s Oscar Entry Is a Coming-of-Age Saga in ’70s Sri

In the primary trailer for “Funny Boy,” which is directed by Deepa Mehta and is launched by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY, we discover the sexual awakening of a younger boy in 1970s and ’80s Sri Lanka simply as political tensions will deliver the nation to a boiling level.

“Funny Boy” relies on the Canadian novel by Shyam Selvadurai and spans throughout a decade because it follows Arjie (performed by each Arush Nand and Brandon Ingram at totally different ages) as he comes of age in a society and household that don’t embrace variations outdoors of societal norms.

The movie chronicles Arjie’s battle to seek out steadiness and self-love regardless of the absence of empathy and understanding, and it’s all occurring because the battle between the minority Tamils and the bulk Sinhalese rages on.

Mehta’s movie on Thursday was introduced as Canada’s official choice for the Best International Feature Film on the 2021 Oscars, becoming a member of an already crowded race of movies from internationally. In truth, that is Mehta’s second movie that may characterize Canada on the Oscars, as one among his movies from 2007, “Water,” the third characteristic in Mehta’s Elements trilogy, was nominated for an Oscar in the identical class.

DuVernay’s ARRAY will launch “Funny Boy” via Netflix starting Thursday, Dec. 10 (within the U.S., U.Okay., Australia and New Zealand), and the movie may also play theatrically in choose cities.

Check out the primary trailer for “Funny Boy” right here and above.