Dear all,
Film Society of Bhubaneswar invites you to its monthly screening programme for the month of September 2025 on September 13, at Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Odissi Resaerch Centre, near XIMB square. The screening is exclusively for its members. Non members can avail passes and attend the screenings.
13 September 2025
3.30 pm onwards
Au Hasard Balthazar
Dir: Robert Bresson
(1966/95 mins/France)
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson’s unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence.
5.40 pm onwards
EO
Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski
(2022/88 mins/Poland)
Legendary filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski directs one of his most free and visually inventive films, following the travels of a nomadic gray donkey named EO. After being removed from the traveling circus, which is the only life he’s ever known, EO begins a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure, all the while observing the follies and triumphs of humankind. Skolimowski’s film puts the viewer in the perspective of its four-legged protagonist on a quest for freedom.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring immersive, stunning cinematography by Michal Dymek coupled with Pawel Mykietyn’s resonant score, the film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Guru Kelu Charan Mohapatra Odissi Research Centre, Plot No. 1/A, Jayadev Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751013, India
INR 150
