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Film screening is followed by Q&A session with special guests

*Doors open at 5:30pm

Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—and a newly retired coworker Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on prosaic moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is pursued by a courtly doctor; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside resort with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actors with an unforced expressivity and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. Contact wgs@mit.edu for questions and accommodations.

Women Take The Reel is brought to you by the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality at MIT; the MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies; the Boston College Women’s and Gender Studies Program; the MIT Program in Media Arts & Sciences; the Northeastern University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; the Tufts University Program in Film and Media Studies; and the Tufts University Program In Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies