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POETRY AND PARTITION: THE FILMS OF RITWIK GHATAK at Film at Lincoln Center (Nov. 1-6). Although the movies of the Indian director Satyajit Ray (“Pather Panchali”) are part of the global-cinephile canon, the eight films of his contemporary Ghatak — whom Ray felt was underrecognized — are seldom screened here. A Bengali intellectual whose films addressed, in ways both personal and abstract, themes of poverty and identity in the wake of India’s partition, Ghatak was gently experimental in his low angles and use of sound. His reputed masterpiece, “The Cloud-Capped Star” (on Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday), tells the story of a family that abuses the generosity of one sister (Supriya Choudhury), who sacrifices her own happiness while her brother chases his dreams of musical stardom and a would-be husband pursues his studies. Ghatak plays a version of himself in “Reason, Debate and a Tale” (on Saturday and Wednesday), released after his death.

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’SCOPE DOCS: THE WILD WORLD IN WIDESCREEN at the Museum of the Moving Image (Nov. 1-3). For anyone who associates documentaries with televisual blandness, the films here argue otherwise. The director Jason Kohn has selected nonfiction films that make expressive use of a wide-screen aspect ratio, including his own debut feature, “Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)” (on Sunday), a daisy-chain examination of class disparities and the economics of crime and corruption in Brazil. Kohn will introduce the screenings, which kick off on Friday with “Tokyo Olympiad,” Kon Ichikawa’s chronicle of the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, and continue the next day with rarely screened documentaries by Vittorio de Seta, who captured traditional pre-industrial practices in Italy.

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