FSB to hold annual festival of world cinema

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.