About The Event
Dear all,
We are back to our members' screenings post the summer break.
Film Society of Bhubaneswar (FSB) invites you to its regular monthly screening of films for July 2026 on Saturday 25th.
The screening will be held at the Odissi Research Centre Auditorium, Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar (Mo Bus Stop, Xavier Square).
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Film Notes
July 25 , Saturday
3.30 pm onwards
Bal (100 mins, Colour, 2010)
Dir Semih Kaplanoglu, Turkish, Turkey
The first film of the evening is the Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010, Bal Honey (2010), is the final film of Turkish Writer Director Semih Kaplanoglu's celebrated Yusuf Trilogy (the three films in the trilogy explore the middle-age, adolescence and childhood - in that particular order - of the central character, Yusuf). Following the last two screenings, this brings to a close our screening of the trilogy.
Though the films are part of a trilogy but they can also be seen as independent, stand-alone films.
Coming as it does at the end of the trilogy, but chronologically at the beginning, Bal Honey represents the full achievement of Kaplanoglu's filmmaking, which details the simple and subdued life of a family living in rural Anatolia. Yusuf is a painfully shy and reserved little boy who can only express himself to his beloved father Yakup. Yakup earns a modest living by collecting honey from the woods surrounding the family's remote home, while his wife Zehra runs the family home and Yusuf spends his days attending the local school. But tensions build when the honey crop fails and Zehra becomes increasingly worried that Yusuf is struggling to learn to read.
Then, one evening, Yakup does not return from the forest...Yusuf begins to notice his mother's low morale, and refuses to speak. Unwilling to accept his father's disappearance, Yusuf flees his house on a personal, yet spiritual journey into the depths of the forest. The ambiguities of the natural world and humanity's threatening of its ancient order - shape a revelatory journey from innocence to experience, one grounded in the specificities of place but resonant and relevant to all.
The Yusuf trilogy was screened earlier at film society during 2014.
5.40 pm onwards
The Leopard (185 mins, Colour, 1963)
Dir Luchino Visconti, Italian, Italy
The second film of the evening is Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy.
Burt Lancaster stars as the aging prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of a new generation, represented by his upstart nephew (Alain Delon) and his beautiful fiancee (Claudia Cardinale).
Awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, The Leopard translates Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel, and the history it recounts, into a truly cinematic masterpiece.
