Lion (Lion)
Directed by: Garth DavisCast list: Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Dev Patel
Country: Australia, USA, United Kingdom
Year: 2016
Genres: Drama / Biographical /
Runtime: 120 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: English version with subtitles in Catalan
In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adopted by the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love that he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds.
Educational Grades: ##COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA##Secondary school, 14 to 16##COMA##Sixth form college##COMA##Further education##COMA##Further Edu, mature students##COMA##Higher Education##COMA##
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / English language / Form class (Pastoral care) / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Literature / Computer. Internet. New technologies / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / children, children’s rights / adolescence, youth / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human geography / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / human rights / film adaptation of literary or graphic work / politics, political systems /
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The true story behind the film LionThe history of Saroo Brierley, the protagonist
Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion
Child Protection and Child Rights In India
Save the Children, India. Official Website
How India Counts Its Hundreds of Thousands of Missing Children
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