PATHER PANCHALI

SYNOPSIS: With this luminous 1955 debut, Satyajit Ray announced a singular new voice in world cinema and launched the legendary Apu Trilogy. Ray’s unsentimental, deeply poetic portrait of a poor Bengali family follows wide-eyed young Apu and his sister Durga through the small wonders and quiet sorrows of village life, filmed with a naturalism that would reshape Indian art cinema for generations. Winner of the Best Human Document award at Cannes, Pather Panchali remains one of the most influential and emotionally devastating films ever made.