They were children with guns. Now they're ghosts with stories.
Vetri decided to find her fellow former child soldiers. They, like her, fought for the independence of the Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka. Talking together, they open up the traumas of war and reveal stories that were meant to be forgotten.
Direction
Zwiefka's restraint lets silence scream louder than violence.
Editing
Fragments of memory stitched into something almost unbearably whole.
Director
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009, but the government maintains a near-total blackout on Tamil narratives — making this footage politically dangerous to capture.
Zwiefka spent years earning trust in LTTE-affected communities; several subjects appear on camera for the first time, having refused all previous journalists.
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