<span style="color: #222222;">Satyajit Ray's epic masterpiece 'Pather Panchali' has been included in BBC's 100 best foreign language films list. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The list was culled out from a poll where over 200 critics from 43 countries picked their best foreign language film. It all narrowed down to 100 films from 67 different directors, from 24 countries, and in 19 languages. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Ray's film, released in 1955 and the first in his Apu trilogy, was placed at number 15 in the list, which has been topped by Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to BBC, 27 of the highest-rated films were in French, followed by 12 in Mandarin, and 11 each in Italian and Japanese. The BBC said, only four of the 100 films have been directed by women. However, it said that 45 per cent of the critics who took part in the poll were women.</span><br />''