In Tamil Jaffna is a phonetic combination that expresses the words harp and town. If we do a translation, we could say that Jaffna is the City of Harps. Located in the north of Sri Lanka, it is the second most important city in the country and during the Sri Lankan civil war, it was the command base of the Tamil Tigers, the separatist military group that faced the government for more than 20 years. In Little Jaffna (2024), the debut feature by director and actor Lawrence Valin, we delve into this conflict from the perspective of the Sri Lankan diaspora embodied in a suburb of Paris.

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