Time & Location
10 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Bhubaneswar, Guru Kelu Charan Mahapatra Odissi Research Centre, XIM Square, JAYADEV VIHAR, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751013, India
About The Event
Film Society of Bhubaneswar (FSB) invites you to its screening of films for October 2026 on Saturday 10th.
3.30 pm
Black Narcissus (101 mins/Colour/1947)
Dir: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger/English/UK
Based on Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel, Black Narcissus tells the story of five Anglo-Catholic nuns are assigned to open a school and hospital in remote Himalayas. Under the newly appointed Sister Superior Clodagh, the group journeys to an old castle formerly used by a local Raja to house his harem. In the high, rarefied, vast and lonely spaces, the nuns strive, by hard labour, they strive to set up their mission. But the altitude and exotic atmosphere begin to take psychological toll.
Black Narcissus is one of the high points of Technicolor photography; Jack Cardiff’s work on the film as well as Alfred Junge’s production design won Academy Awards, and the film is used even today as a textbook example…