After the international acclaim of Satyajit Ray’s debut, he returned to novelist Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s source material and picked up the Roy family saga where Pather Panchali left off. The resulting film won a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, and established Ray as a major global filmmaker. Aparajito finds the Roys in a new home―trading fields of shimmering kaash flowers and big skies for the bustle of Varanasi on the river Ganges―as Apu grows from child to adolescent. A tender film about the evolving relationship between parents and their children over time, Aparajito leaves our hero in a dramatic spot.

Director: Satyajit Ray. Cast: Pinaki Sen Gupta, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Smaran Ghosal. 1956. 113 minutes. India. B&W. Bengali. DCP. Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, the FilmFoundation, and the Packard Humanities Institute. 

All film screenings of Satyajit Ray: 1955–1968 are available here.