World Movies Screening: Umrika

Name: World Movies Screening: Umrika
Start: 2025-10-31T10:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-10-31T12:30:00+11:00
Location: Stanton Library, Conference Room (Level 2)

Schedule

Fri Oct 31 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

Stanton Library, Conference Room (Level 2) | North Sydney, NS

This month, discover this funny and meaningful film set in mid-1980s rural India about the lengths a person can take to realise a dream.
About this Event

Join us for a free movie screening of Umrika, an Indian Hindi comedy-drama that won the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, starring Life of Pi's Suraj Sharma. Director Prashant Nair shares that the film is "about the mythology of America, and more generally, how cultures perceive each other".

Morning tea provided. Bookings essential.

About the movie

A small village in India is invigorated when one of their own travels to America and details his adventures through letters home. But when the letters mysteriously stop coming, his younger brother Rama sets out on a journey to find him.