World Water Day, 16 films to watch from Drought by Virzì to Mad Max: Fury Road

Drought by Paolo Virzì (2022) tells of a Rome captured in a dystopian present in which a severe drought has reduced water reserves to a minimum. The film follows some characters who have to try to survive, facing the terrible consequences of such a catastrophe

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The shark is the famous film by Steven Spielberg, the one with which the director became an icon of pop culture. It is a thriller mixed with horror that tells of a shark that terrorizes an entire bay. Water is inevitably the great protagonist, since it is the natural habitat of the film’s antagonist

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Lady in the Water is a 2006 film written, produced, directed and performed by M. Night Shyamalan, inspired by a fairy tale that the director himself had written to tell his children. Here water is seen as a magical element, as a source of salvation, as well as hope for a better future

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The Shape of Water – The Shape of Water (The Shape of Water) is a 2017 film directed by Guillermo del Toro. It won the Golden Lion for best film at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and won four Academy Awards, out of thirteen nominations received, winning the award for best film, best director, best scenography and best soundtrack. Water is the great protagonist of this tale with a horror background, complete with an underwater love scene that has become a legend in its own right

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Master & Commander – Challenge at the edge of the sea is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir, based on the Saga of Aubrey and Maturin, a maritime literary saga with a Napoleonic setting by Patrick O’Brian, centered on the adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and the ship’s doctor Stephen Maturin, played respectively by Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. The film received ten Academy Award nominations. It tells a very immersive aquatic adventure, following the battles between big ships. Water is the great protagonist, clearly

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We cannot talk about films in which water plays a fundamental role without mentioning Titanic, the 1997 blockbuster written, directed, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. The real antagonist of the protagonists of this epic film is not the iceberg, which causes the sinking of the ocean liner, but the water itself. And anyway the iceberg is water in solid form, so it’s always water

Cast away is a 2000 American film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is the second collaboration between the director and actor Tom Hanks after Forrest Gump (1994). It tells of the shipwreck of the protagonist, played by Tom Hanks, on a desert island where water is the element that separates the character from his life, from his affections, from normality and from the world. Once you find the courage to cross that water, nothing will ever be the same

waterworld is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Kevin Reynolds, starring and co-produced by Kevin Costner. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future. It tells of a mutant looking for the last bits of land in a world submerged by water. The film was shot entirely on water. Water becomes such a protagonist of man’s life that it changes their DNA: the protagonist, Kevin Costner, is a fish-man mutant

The Mystery of Water (The Weight of Water) is a 2000 film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, based on the novel The weight of water by Anita Shreve. It is a psychological thriller set in two different games: in the present there is a couple on a boating vacation, instead in 1873 a massacre within a community on an island off the coast of New Hampshire. The water is not only titled: she is a great protagonist of this film

Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 film directed by George Miller. It is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future where petrol and water are nearly depleted resources. It is the fourth installment in the series Mad Maxstarring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee and Courtney Eaton

The Little Mermaid is a 2023 American film directed by Rob Marshall. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, it is the live action remake of the 1989 Disney animated film of the same name, based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen The little Mermaid. Here Ariel is played by actress Halle Bailey. Water is the great protagonist not only because a mermaid clearly lives in it: in this film water takes on a very important symbolic meaning

Oceania (Moana) is a 2016 computer animated film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The film is the 56th Disney Classic, it has received many nominations, two at the 2017 Oscars for best animated film and best song. The film tells the story of Vaiana Waialiki, a little Maori princess who lives on the island of Motunui in Polynesia. She has a great passion for the ocean that surrounds her island of hers. You will have to carry out a very daring mission, which will see water as the great protagonist of the story

Life of Pi (Life of Pi) is a 2012 film directed by Ang Lee, film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yann Martel. The water is the background to the most significant scenes of the film, those that compare the human protagonist and the animal protagonist, the tiger

Prilivi Tuda-Suda (Tides To and Fro) by the Russian director Ivan Maximov is an animated film from 2010 that aims to raise public awareness on the serious issue of water that is destined to run out

Avatar – The Way of Water (Avatar: The Way of Water) is a 2022 film directed by James Cameron. Produced by 20th Century Studios, it is the sequel to the film Avatars in 2009. He was nominated for numerous film awards, including four Academy Awards (winning Best Special Effects), two Golden Globes and six Satellite Awards. Here water is not only the protagonist but it is the goal, the road, the way forward

Utama – The Forgotten Lands is a 2022 film by Alejandro Loayza Grisi. It tells the story of a couple from the Bolivian plateau, undecided whether to leave their land or not. In this film, the lack of water becomes a very important theme, making us go back to the time when it was precisely the watercourses and water sources that decreed the birth of civilizations: only where there is water is there life, therefore only in a land rich in water man can thrive