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Vinyan

Greek title: Βηνυαν
Russian title: Душа
Original title: Vinyan

Alternative titles:
Vinyan – Verirrte Seelen

Horror movie – France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Australia
Production year: 2008
Movie length: 96 minutes

Director: Fabrice Du Welz

Movie description:

In Phuket Island, Thailand, the architect Paul Bellmer and his wife Jeanne lost their son Joshua in a tsunami six months ago. Jeanne is disturbed and has not accepted the loss of her beloved son. While watching some footages from Myanmar (former Burma), Jeanne is convinced that a boy wearing a Manchester United shirt in a poor village is Joshua, and Paul accepts to seek out their son in the sea gypsies camp. They hire the trafficker Thaksin Gao and they travel in the boat of master Sonchai to search Joshua. After a series of weird incidents, Sonchai leaves the trio in an abandoned village. They have to walk through the jungle where they face a journey to hell.

Unable to accept the the loss of their son in the 2005 tsunami, Jeanne and Paul Bellmer have remained in Phuket, Thailand. Desperately clinging to the fact that his body was never recovered, Jeanne has convinced herself that the boy was kidnapped by traffickers in the chaos that followed the catastrophe ... that her son is still alive. Paul is sceptical, but cannot bring himself to shatter his wife’s last hope. Bribing the sinister Mr. Gao to take them by boat to the pirate-infested jungles of the Thai/Burmese border, the traumatized couple embark on a quest that will plunge them through paranoia and betrayal, ever deeper into an alien universe – a supernatural realm where the dead are never truly dead, and where nightmares, obsession, and horrifying reality converge.

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