CWC Global Showing Of: “Hearth and Home” (Alaav)
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Film/Movie
Pollock Theater
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Date & Time
Tue, Oct 13 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Address (map)
Pollock Theater University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4010
Venue (website)
Pollock Theater
Prabhash Chandra’s 2024 film Hearth and Home (Alaav) follows Bhaveen Gossain, a 63-year-old son caring for his ailing 95-year-old mother, Savitri, in their quiet suburban home in New Delhi, India.
Rarely leaving the house, Bhaveen devotes himself entirely to his mother’s care, from the moment he wakes until he goes to sleep. Through long, static shots and an observational approach, the film transforms the routines of caregiving—eating, cleaning, and bathing—into intimate and meditative rituals.
These moments capture Bhaveen’s tenderness, playfulness, patience, and devotion alongside the struggles, frustrations, and resentment that caregiving can entail. Dispassionate yet intimate, Hearth and Home (Alaav) offers a complex portrait of love, caregiving, and family obligation, as well as what it means to care for someone until the very end.
Director Prabhash Chandra will join moderator Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Hearth and Home (Alaav).
