Special FREE Screening at Mia (Pillsbury Auditorium, 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis) • Saturday, April 12 at 2:00pm
Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
MSP Film is partnering with the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), Indian Cultural Association of Minnesota (ICAM), India Association of Minnesota (IAM), and Khazana on this special screening of the first feature film by legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray at Mia on Saturday, April 12 at 2pm. Admission is FREE.
With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly “auntie,” Indir—vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist’s perpetual sense of discovery, Pather Panchali, which won an award for Best Human Document at Cannes, is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power.