Film Society Bhubaneswar August Screening

Dear all, 

Film Society of Bhubaneswar (FSB) invites you to its regular monthly screening of films for August 2025.

The screening will be held at the Odissi Research Centre Auditorium, Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar (Mo Bus Stop: Xavier Square).

August 23rd Saturday 

3.30 pm 

The Hawks and the Sparrows

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

(1966/89 mins/Italy/B&W)

5.30 pm

Downpour

Dir: Bahram Beyzaie

(1972/129 mins/ Persian/ B&W)

The first screening of the evening belongs to our classics section and presents The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) by one the great filmmakers in history of world cinema, the Italian poet, writer and filmmaker, Mr. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). While wandering the countryside, a pair of father-and-son vagabonds happen upon a talking crow who spouts philosophy and launches them on a freewheeling picaresque through time, space, and the margins of a rapidly modernizing Italy. A comic Marxist fable that balances heady ideas about religion, poverty, and class struggle with irreverent slapstick sight gags, The Hawks and the Sparrows finds Pasolini at his lightest yet as stingingly subversive as ever.

The second film of the evening,  this first feature from Bahram Beyzaie which helped usher in the Iranian New Wave. When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. Shot in luminous monochrome and edited with imagination, Downpour, which has been painstakingly restored from the only known surviving print, captures with puckish humor and great tenderness the cultural conflicts coursing through Iran at a pivotal historical moment. This film has been restored as part of World Cinema Project led by Martin Scorsese.

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