• About
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    In 2009, Zaytuna College was founded in Berkeley, California, with a mission that called for grounding students in the Islamic scholarly tradition as well as in the cultural currents and critical ideas shaping modern society.

  • Academics
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    As a Muslim liberal arts college in the West, Zaytuna offers a curriculum that provides its students with a foundation in the intellectual heritage of two major world civilizations: the Islamic and the Western.

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  • Admissions & Aid
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    Our mission is to educate students to become morally, intellectually, and spiritually accomplished individuals ready to contribute to our contemporary world in ways that are proportionate to their gifts and to the needs of human society.

     

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  • Campus Life
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    Zaytuna’s campus is on Holy Hill and students enter the College as part of a cohort, a community of learners that travel together through the curriculum.

“Reflection: A Walk with Water” Film Screening

Friday, October 11, 2024 | 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Upper Campus

Join environmental documentary filmmaker Emmett Brennan and Zaytuna scholar-in-residence Rhamis Kent for an evening of film and conversation

Reserve Your Seats

Reflection: A Walk with Water

Zaytuna College will host an environmental documentary film screening and conversation on Friday, October 11, 2024 at 3:30 pm. California-based filmmaker Emmett Brennan will be visiting Zaytuna College to share his 2021 directorial debut, Reflection: A Walk with Water. There will be a conversation and Q&A after the screening with Emmett Brennan and Zaytuna’s permaculture scholar-in-residence, Rhamis Kent. 

Tickets for the general public are $20. Ages 12 and older are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

About the Film

Reflection: A Walk with Water (80 minutes) explores California’s water crisis through a series of interviews with local environmentalists, including Zaytuna's Rhamis Kent. The documentary examines the California drought along the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The film offers an austere glimpse into the brutal reality that contemporary industrialization has created, as well as presents a path forward for reshaping societal perceptions and misconceptions of water. It debuted at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. Watch the trailer here.