Cinema Regained

When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.

As Japanese monsters like Godzilla have so often saved the world, could they now help us fight Covid-19? Find out here!

Can we find a different feminism in the images of state-sponsored Soviet documentaries about women and their role in socialism? Yes.

A forceful portrait of architect-filmmaker-artist Amos Gitaï, focusing on two clusters in his oeuvre. Lucid and enlightening.

Discover how Zombie-film godfather George A. Romero turned a Lutheran church-sponsored social-guidance film into a grimly gaudy horror show.

A delightfully fresh mix of erotica, horror and meta movie about the YouTubeverse as a vanity fair. Genre at its smartest!

A gorgeously restored short animation with lots of scary surreal sights by one of Japan’s pop art legends Tanaami Keiichi.

The most famous and feminist take on the life of 19th-century socialite Camila O’Gorman and her love for a priest.

A wild mix of quirky fiction feature and playful historical film essay investigates a key moment in Iranian (cinema) history.

An essay parable, part documentary part fiction, on the desire for a leader, anchored in Brecht’s 1935 poem A Worker Reads History.

A long-lost, legendary classic of Iranian New Wave cinema that mixes Hitchcockian scares and thrills with refined formalist aesthetics.

A loving exploration of private cinema initiatives as an example of a cinephilia that civilly truly matters.

A making-of turns into a documentary about the troublesome relationship between a star auteur father and his neophyte director daughter.

A vanguard work for Iran’s New Wave in its never-before-seen, uncensored original version.

When a good man fallen on hard times meets his former protégé, fate puts their relationship to the ultimate test. Iranian cinema megaclassic.

This eerily stylish yet matter-of-factly told tale about an exorcism in rural Italy offers a unique mix of anthropology and horror.

A portrait of Finnish master Rauni Mollberg and his troublesome legacy as a genius artist and deeply flawed human being.

The grim tale of a young village woman suffering abuse from her brutally pious environment, told with naturalist honesty.

When Covid-19 hits the world, director Chris finds himself shooting a different film from the one he intended to make.

Hollywood noir icon Laird Cregar’s inner turmoil as a black-on-grey delirium of shadows and spectres. An avant-garde film-historical essay.

An animated cautionary tale about totalitarianism in an irreverent, surreal 1960s mix of styles. Featuring acerbic cabaret icon Helmut Qualtinger.

Young movie rebel Dennis Hopper spends an evening of film talk and bawdy banter with Hollywood’s maverick suprême, Orson Welles.

Four stories about childhood and youth. A poetic manifesto film of Soviet Lithuanian cinema in a splendidly restored version.

A lively and timely portrait of María Luisa Bemberg, one of Argentina’s most outstanding, unique and independent-minded masters of cinema.

When silly low-brow comedy and magic show meet, the most curious sparks fly. A classic unlike any other.

The USSR might be gone, but some Icelanders still meet every week to watch Soviet movies.

Self-critical look by Korea’s public broadcaster at its involvement with the military dictatorship, using its own materials and interviews.

A film-historical animation sensation: an early Disney short long believed lost, finally resurrected and freshly restored.

One of the earliest audio-visual works on the Wodaabe, a nomadic people now famous for their unique culture and rites.

Noël Carroll’s 1990 treatise The Philosophy of Horror Or, Paradoxes of the Heart adapted as essayistic appropriated-footage assault on the senses.

The French track and field team prepares for the world championships. A paean to sport as a shining example of human nobility.

Early live-action work rich in special effects by animation giant Masaoka Kenzō, revived and restored. Nine minutes to re-write film history.

A critical self-portrait of Switzerland in five short movements, made for the great National Exposition of 1964. A watershed documentary restored.

An axiomatic masterpiece of ironically humanist samurai cinema in a newly restored version that includes recently found scenes considered long lost.

Investigation into the reality of classical Hollywood grammar and the myths Hollywood created about itself. A work of infinite jest.

Four cans of badly damaged film become the starting point for a gallivanting journey through Soviet history, cinema and beyond.

A pop art-driven, surrealist animation about war fears, industrial overdevelopment, and other civilisational neuroses.