Saturday, March 7: 7 pm
MONSOON
Dir: Sturla Gunnarsson
Documentary 108 minutes
Monsoon is a visually stunning meditation on the annual rains that descend upon India, and their alternately disastrous and beneficial impact on Indian society, economy, agriculture, and individual lives.
For Gunnarsson, the monsoon functions as a godlike entity, capable of bringing and sustaining life and destroying it — a duality that sparks profound reflections on the nature of order, chaos, creation, and faith in a perpetually mysterious universe.
Chasing the weather system from when it hits land in the south (where a family anxiously awaits its arrival) to its passage through large cities like Calcutta and Mumbai and on into the northern sections of the country, Gunnarsson speaks to Indians from all walks of life about the monsoon’s manifold effects.
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