Earth
Deepa Mehta India, Canada 1998 108 min PG
A young Parsi girl whose Hindu nanny is wooed by two Muslim suitors bears witness to the violent Partition of India and Pakistan.
In Lahore in 1947, young Lenny, from a wealthy Parsi family, is cared for by her beautiful and loving Hindu nanny Shanta. The two enjoy the company of Shanta’s colourful group of working-class friends of different faiths, including two Muslim men in love with Shanta. Yet looming over them is the spectre of Britain’s plan for India’s independence: dividing it into two nations along religious lines.
As tensions escalate, old loyalties erode and new allegiances are formed based on the desire for survival, compassion, justice or revenge. As part of the Parsi minority, her family seeks to remain neutral, but Lenny learns hard truths about human nature while her country and community are violently, irrevocably changed.
Synopsis Writer: Aditi Shivaramakrishnan
6 Dec, Sat 2:00PM / 108 min
Oldham Theatre
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Earth
पृथ्वी
Deepa Mehta
India, Canada
1998
English, Hindi
English
108 min
PG
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta is an Indian-born Canadian filmmaker whose often provocative works explore transnational identities and social injustices. Her award-winning films include the Elemental Trilogy: Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and the Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Water (2005), as well as the Canadian Screen Award winner Funny Boy (2020). Mehta is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. With her deeply humanist and sumptuous works on taboo topics such as sexuality, religion and colonialism that have incensed conservatives, she has emerged as one of the foremost South Asian diasporic female directors.
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