APARAJITO

SYNOPSIS: Picking up where Pather Panchali left off, Satyajit Ray’s Golden Lion-winning sequel follows young Apu and his mother from the ancient holy city of Varanasi to a small Bengali village, and finally toward the intoxicating pull of Calcutta and higher learning. As Apu grows from a wide-eyed boy into a restless, book-hungry teenager, his widening world quietly pulls him away from the one person who sacrificed everything for him. Tender, aching, and quietly devastating, it’s a coming-of-age story built on the guilt embedded in growing up and leaving home behind.