UK release on 26th June 2009.

 

Starring Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell and Julie Dreyfus

Devastated by the loss of their son, Joshua, in the tsunami of 2004, Paul (Rufus Sewell –The Illusionist) and Jeanne Belhmer (Emmanuelle Béart  - 8 Femmes) have remained in Thailand.  Since his body has never been recovered, they cling frantically to the hope that he has survived.  Glimpsing a boy who looks like Joshua in video footage from a village of orphaned children on the Thai-Burmese border, Jeanne becomes convinced that her son was kidnapped by traffickers.

Unwilling to shatter his wife’s last hope, Paul remains sceptical as she throws their money at a sinister smuggler who promises to take them by boat into pirate-infested waters to find their son.  As they continue their quest through the dark jungle, the traumatized couple is pulled into a primeval hell created by their own obsessions and mutual desperation for some sense of closure.

Vinyan is directed by Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire).