MUMBAI: Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud Capped Star), directed by Ritwik Ghatak in 1960, will be screened in Cinematheque programme of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2012.

"A young woman desperately struggles to keep her family out of poverty in this fiercely moving masterpiece by the great, perennially under-recognised Indian auteur Ritwik Ghatak," the festival website describes of the film.

The other films to screen in this section are The Bitter Ash by Larry Kent, Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock, Loin du Vi?tnam by Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agn?s Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais; Stromboli by Roberto Rossellini and Tess by Roman Polanski.