{"id":709,"date":"2021-09-04T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imefilmfest.com\/international-migration-environmental-film-festival\/?page_id=709"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:25:23","slug":"imeff-2021-official-selection-am-i-also-a-dream-by-keerthigan-sivakumar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imefilmfest.com\/international-migration-&-environmental-film-festival\/imeff-2021-official-selection-am-i-also-a-dream-by-keerthigan-sivakumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I also a dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/imefilmfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Am_I_Also_Dream-1-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-974\" width=\"469\" height=\"663\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directed by <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keerthigan Sivakumar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Country of Origin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7:50<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I arrived in Switzerland in 2009, as an asylum seeker coming from Sri Lanka. I was 19. Three years later, during an uneventful afternoon, I suddenly started to feel dizzy and I fainted. In order to find what had caused such a violent sensation, I started recalling the years that I had spent in exile through the visual traces of my past journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it enough for me to dive into archive pictures to do this? To free myself from these emotions, which overwhelm me, and push them away, I have taken other artistic forms of cinema in hand\u2026 &#8211; Keerthigan Sivakumar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director Biography &#8211;&nbsp;Keerthigan Sivakumar<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/ff-storage-p01\/press_kits\/headshots\/001\/695\/271\/original\/fa5a945f8e-headshot.jpg?1606384854\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I arrived as a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee in 2009, currently residing in Lausanne, Switzerland. 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