"WHAT IS it about feeling dirty that shames us into silence and disgust?"

That’s a question director Meghna Haldar tries to answer in her new film Dirt, as she sets out to unearth the muck of human history and culture by asking when cleanliness became next to Godliness?

Haldar embarks on a journey that takes her from the slums of Kolkata to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and a barbecue joint in Central Texas to take a deeper look at the four letter word, which contains a world of meaning spanning the divine to the profane.

In the panoply of ideas she explores, she asks where the line is drawn between race, class and dirt? What does it mean to feel dirty?

As the parallels between what is considered disposable — garbage and people — begin to emerge, Meghna is forced to confront her own deeply held prejudices and discover the true nature of dirt.

A production of the National Film Board of Canada, Dirt digs deep into the filthy experience of being human.

Haldar and producer Tracey Friesen will be in attendance at the premiere, along with other special guests from the film