One of the things that is abundantly clear in "Funny Boy" is that identity is complicated. In this gay coming-of-age story set during the lead-up to the civil war in Sri Lanka, director Deepa Mehta ambitiously juxtaposes a teenage love story with rising political tensions and ethnic violence in a film that is ultimately about thriving and sometimes just surviving as someone deemed "different." Based on the Lambda Award-winning 1994 novel by Sri Lankan Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai, who also co-wrote the adaptation with Mehta, "Funny Boy" is Canada's official selection to compete in the int...