San Francisco Green Film Festival proudly presents the SF Premiere of Monsoon at the 5th Bay Area Science Festival. After the screening, join an expert discussion on our global rains, including monsoons, the California drought and impending El Niño.
6:00pm Reception in the lobby
7:00pm Film Screening & Q&A
Ticket includes pre-screening reception with light refreshments.
Monsoon
Sturla Gunnarsson, Canada, 2014, 108 mins (English/Hindi/Assamese/Malayalam/Marathi)
SF Premiere. Filmed over the course of India's 2013 monsoon season, the filmmakers chased the monsoon on its annual journey from the southern state of Kerala, where it first makes landfall, to India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya ('Place of the Clouds'), where the clouds go to die. Along the way, they meet a remarkable group of individuals whose lives are in different ways entwined with the phenomenon that some call "the soul of India".
A cinematic journey into the terrain where nature, science, belief and wonder converge in one of the most astonishing and breathtaking landscapes on earth, Monsoon is a film that captures the timelessness and rich human drama of our engagement with the natural world.
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2014
People's Choice Award Winner, Canada's Top Ten Film Festival 2014
