Water For Birds

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Water for Birds is an Australian observational documentary set in India’s Varanasi red-light district. It focuses on an alternative education centre run by the organisation Guria, who educates ‘at risk’ young people from sexual exploitation backgrounds. The film is in Hindi with English subtitles.

Themes

The film contains themes in the form of verbal references to sex workers and young children who are considered at risk within a documentary context. The film also contains verbal references to family violence, bereavement and education in developing countries.

Violence

The film contains a verbal reference to giving a naughty child a 'beating' and smacking children at home.

Language

The film contains use of the word "hell".

Drug use

The film contains a verbal reference to smoking 'Ganga'.

Nudity

The film contains nudity in a front-on depiction of a naked boy swimming with his classmates in a stream. The depiction is brief and distant and is not the focus of the scene.

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Classification date

16 August 2023

Year of production

2023

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