In a Sri Lanka in the midst of a social crisis, an unusual snake hunter takes us into people’s homes through his missions. He has a goal: to save cobras and humans in order to accumulate karmic energy and reach Nirvana. On the way to eternal salvation, the fear of death breaks through. Between mystery, music and Buddhism, the portrait of an extraordinary man: Wasantha.
Luca Ciriello, born in Naples in 1988, is an Italian documentary filmmaker, director and film producer. With a degree in Modern Philology, he completed a Master’s degree in Cinema at the Naples Pigrecoemme Film School and studied documentary cinema at the Atelier di Cinema del Reale FilmAp. In 2017, with the victory of MiBACT’s Cultura Crea call for proposals, he founded the film company Lunia Film Srl.