A still from Ikiru directed by Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa

Bhubaneswar, Oct. 29: Cinema lovers in the city are in for a visual treat.

The Film Society of Bhubaneswar is organising the eighth annual festival of world cinema that will give movie buffs a peep into the global celluloid arena with the screening of a host of movies, ranging from classics to contemporary.

The three-day festival will be held at Jayadev Bhavan from November 3.

Each day will have three sessions. The mornings will be dedicated to documentaries from Chile, especially with the idea of looking at cinema as a medium of documenting history. The documentaries, which will recount the South American country’s struggle against totalitarianism, include September 11, 1973: The Last Stand of Salvador Allende (based on the death of former Chilean president in a coup), Images of Dictatorship (2004) and Nostalgia For the Light (2010).

The afternoon sessions will be devoted to celebrated Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa. Ardent admirers of this legend will get the opportunity to enjoy his masterpieces such as Throne of Blood, Ikiru and The Hidden Fortress, all from the 50s. Each screening during the morning and afternoon session will be followed by a discussion on various themes dealt with by eminent film-makers.

The final sessions will celebrate the best of contemporary world cinema. Directed by Ashghar Farhadi, A Separation, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012 (the first Iranian film to receive this honour), will be screened on the first evening.

Argentinean film Las Acacias directed by Pablo Giorgelli, Japanese film Still Walking directed by Hirokazu Koreeda and Czech film Something Like Happiness by Bohdan Sláma will also be screened. Russian film How I Ended This Summer and Belgian film Aaltra will follow on the last day.

“We hope that these films, diverse in their approach and idiom, bringing together the old and the new, will offer new ways of looking at cinema to the younger audience as well as providing engaging experiences for those not so new to film festivals,” said Subash Das, president, Film Society of Bhubaneswar.