Perianayaki
For this Sri Lankan immigrant, it’s another day of stacking supermarket shelves – and of cultural misunderstandings.
Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works. Eye-opening and brimming with compassion, the latest film from director Bala Murali Shingade is a slice-of-life character study that provokes questions about multiculturalism and our assumptions about the people we encounter in daily life.
- Year: 2022
- Country: New Zealand
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: New Zealand Film Commission, Last Minute Productions, Script to Screen
- Keyword: immigrant, new zealand, sri lanka, social justice
- Director: Bala Murali Shingade
- Cast: Jeyagowri Sivakumaran, Aman Bajaj, Joshua Tan, Kurt Utai-Laurenson, Adeline Esther, Olivia O'Driscoll