The Apu Trilogy: 19 to 21 December 2019

 

Organised to mark the birth centenary of Karuna Banerjee, noted Bengali actress who started her career with Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, screening of Ray’s seminal trilogy. Presented in collaboration with National Film Archive of India, Pune, screening of digitally re-mastered version of The Apu Trilogy. The films will be introduced by Samik Bandyopadhyay, well-known film scholar and editor

 

 

 

 

 

In Conversation

 

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, well-known filmmaker and Samit Bandyopadhyay

 

 

 

Followed by

 

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road/Bengali)

 

(112 min; 1955; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)

 

With Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee

 

 

 

Multiple award winner including Best Human Document & OCIC Award – Special Mention, Cannes Film Festival 1956; National Film Awards for Best Feature Film & Best Feature Film in Bengali, National Film Awards, 1956; Golden Gate Awards for Best Director & Best Picture, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1957; among others

 

 

 

The first film in the trilogy, the beginning of Apu’s journey