Screening Dates
  • September 6, 2017 6:30
Free Admission

“Water combines a humanist message, political courage, and visual poetry in a way not seen since the death of Satyajit Ray.”

The Economist

Toronto director Deepa Mehta’s Oscar-nominated Hindi-language feature had to be shot in secrecy in Sri Lanka after angry Hindu fundamentalists burned down the sets of her original production in India. Set in Varanasi in the 1930s, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to prominence, the film takes place in an ashram where widows young and old, including an eight-year-old girl, are forced to live out their lives as impoverished outcasts. Canadian actress Lisa Ray plays an exploited young widow who rebels against such an unhappy fate.

“A magnificent film.”

Salman Rushdie