BHUBANESWAR: Film Society
of Bhubaneswar (FSB) would hold a three-day long 8th Annual Festival of World
Cinema with the support of Tata Steel starting from November 3 at Jaydev Bhavan here. It brings together a
selection of contemporary and critically acclaimed films that offer meaningful
and entertaining exposure to social issues, cultural conventions and artistic
excellence from across the world.
The festival has
three sections including morning session, afternoon session and evening
session. The afternoon session of the first day is dedicated to Japanese
filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and three major works of the master filmmaker would be
featured over the next two days.
The evening
session of each day would feature contemporary cinema from around the world.
Starting at 6 pm on the evening of November 3, following the formal inauguration of the
festival, it would feature two films each evening with a break of 15 minutes
between the screenings. The opening film of the festival is “A Separation”, a well acclaimed film, by
Iranian writer and director Ashghar Farhadi.
The morning
session of November 4 and 5 would focus on documentaries from Chile, looking at
cinema as a mode of resistance to forgetting, cinema as documents of memory and
history, recounting a struggle against totalitarianism.
According to the
organisers, the festival would offer new ways of looking at cinema to a new and
younger audience, as well as providing engaging encounters with cinema for
those not so new to film festivals. And as all film festivals do, it also holds
the promise of renewing old acquaintances and friendships and the making of new
ones through sharing of ideas and experience of cinema, added the organisers.
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